My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for… — Petrarch Age Copy Share Image
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Ancestor Copy Share Image
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human… — Petrarch Climbing Copy Share Image
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears. — Petrarch Christ Copy Share Image
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch Banquets Copy Share Image
“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites… — Petrarch Approaching death Copy Share Image
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. — Petrarch Application Copy Share Image
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some… — Petrarch Life Copy Share Image
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his… — Petrarch Death Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in… — Petrarch Death Copy Share Image
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. — Petrarch Humans Copy Share Image
“[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)” — Petrarch Essays Copy Share Image
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer… — Petrarch Bones Copy Share Image
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars. — Petrarch Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Aurum, argentum, gemmae, purpurea vestis, marmorea domus, cultus ager, pietae tabulae, phaleratus sonipes, caeteraque id genus mutam habent et superficiariam voluptatem: libri… — Petrarch Books Copy Share Image
