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The Autobiografia sonnet sequence appears in a work titled for this collection whose final edition in 1947 included over 400 poems; that collection with this title catalogues the life’s work of Triestine poet Umberto Saba. The speaker of this collection sees a hind caught by dogs and a foundering ship among six visions outside a window in a poem that puns on his lover’s name and a kind of tree. This collection is traditionally divided into poems “in life” and “in death.” The 366th and final poem in this collection is a “Prayer to the Virgin.” (10[1])Thomas Wyatt produced the first English translation (-5[1])of this collection, which opens by addressing “you who (10[1])hear the sound in scattered rhymes.” For 10 points, the poet professes love for Laura in what collection by Petrarch? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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