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birthday c ard July 20, 2004 Francesco Petrarca July 20, 1304– July 18, 1374 ———— Shall I enumerate your lives as three: That of the mortal flesh, in exile born, That of the Latin learning not outworn, That of a sheer immortal poetry? Is body or is book more real, more key, more ready after dark for dawning morn? Latin lasts long beyond its antique bourn. Art lives in likeness to Romanity. Your body traveled Alps, took roads to Rome. The corpus of your work fares farthest ways Posting to scholars and to sonneteers Distinctions of the tomb and of the tome: Those seven decades failed of those two days; These seven centuries filled all these years. Julia Budenz Baranski 000.FM 2/24/09 3:44 PM Page ix Baranski 000.FM 2/24/09 3:44 PM Page x ...

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