Question

In a poem in this language, the speaker angrily asks Nature “Why do you so deceive your children?” before the title character “pointed towards death’s coldness and the silent grave.” A poet using this language described “this lonely hillside” that was “always (10[1])beloved (10[1])to me” (10[1])in (10[1])the poem “The (10[1])Infinite.” (10[5])A poem (10[6])in this (10[1])language ends with the (10[1])“clearest (10[1])knowledge (10[1])/ of how (10[1])the world’s delight is a brief dream.” Thomas Wyatt (10[1])prolifically translated (10[2])a poet in this language (10[2]-5[1])and introduced one of their poetic forms (-5[2])to English. (10[1]-5[1])The sections “In Life” and “In (-5[1])Death” (-5[1])comprise a volume in this language, which begins with the line “You who hear the sound, (10[1]-5[1])in scattered (10[1])rhymes” (10[3]-5[3])and is addressed (10[1])to the poet’s muse Laura. (10[2]-5[2])For (10[2])10 points, (10[5]-5[1])name this (10[1]-5[1])language (10[2])used by the author of Il Canzoniere, (10[2])Petrarch. (10[3])■END■ (10[9]0[1])

ANSWER: Italian [or italiano; or lingua italiana; accept Tuscan or Florentine] (The poem in the first line is “To Silvia” by Giacomo Leopardi.)
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