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Jacopo Filippi Tomasini, 1597-1654.
Petrarcha redivivus, integram poetae celeberrimi vitam iconibus aere caelatis exhibens.
Padua: Typis Pauli Frambotti, 1650.
University of Pennsylvania Library.

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"In the sweet season of our spring" (Canzone, RVF 23) Laura removes Petrarch's heart (verses 72-75): "She who robs souls with but her gaze opened my breast, removed my heart by hand, and warned me in verse: Say not a word of this."

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