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The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

PREFACE
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In beholding Germany, think of Italy.

If the one has given you birth, the other has given you greatness.

If you are king of the one, you are king and emperor of the other.

Let me say, without meaning offence to other nations, that here is the head of your monarchy.

Everywhere else you will find only its members.


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