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Canzoniere Lore Books

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A collection of poems by Petrarch.

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"Canzoniere" iconCanzoniere
di Francesco Petrarca

Voi ch’ ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
Di quei sospiri ond’ io nudriva il core
In sul mio primo giovenile errore,
Quand’ era in parte altr’ uom da quel ch’ i’ sono;
Del vario stile, in ch’ io piango e ragiono
Fra le vane speranze e’l van dolore,
Ove sia chi per prova intenda amore,
Spero trovar pietà, non che perdono.
Ma ben veggi’ or, si come al popol tutto
Favola fui gran tempo: onde sovente
Di me medesmo meco mi vergogno:
E del mio vaneggiar vergogna è ’l frutto,
E ’l pentirsi, e ’l conoscer chiaramente
Che quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno.

You, who hear in these sparse rhymes the sound,
of the sighs that fed this heart of mine,
When I did err within my youthful time,
When I was not the man that I am now,
For all the ways I spoke and wept aloud,
Forgiveness and pity may you find,
Twixt hope and sadness, both of them so vain,
in those who understand love through its pain.
Yet now as clear as all the world I see,
How often and how long I was a fable,
And now I have become ashamed of me.
And shame the fruit of all my vanity,
and remorse and being knowledgeable,
of how the world’s delight’s a fleeting dream.

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