Amor regge suo imperio senza spada. - Petrarch

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Amor regge suo imperio senza spada.

Petrarch

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About Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.

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Alternative Names: Francesco Petrarca • Peetrarque • Petrarque • Francesco Peetrarque • Francesco Petrarch • Francis Petrarch • Petrarca

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Dante Alighieri Rabindranath Tagore Marguerite Yourcenar William Shakespeare Alexander Pushkin

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"While I'm lamenting, every now and then, a doubt arrives to torment me and haunt me: how can these limbs survive without their spirit? Love has an answer, though: "Don't you recall? This is the privilege reserved for lovers, released from all their human qualities.

Pues el hombre es un animal no sólo vil y despreciable, sino también (y no lo diría si la experiencia no me lo hubiera mostrado, y siguiera mostrando, tan claramente) perjudicial, variable, desleal, poco confiable, feroz y cruel.

Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.