Question

This person chastises a later author for forgetting his mortality in three dialogues from the book Secretum. The Waste Land (-5[1])quotes this author’s lines “to Carthage then I came” (15[2]-5[2])and “thou pluckest me (15[1])out.” (15[3])This writer’s claim, (15[1])“men wonder at the heights (-5[1])of mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea...but they consider themselves not” (15[1])provided Petrarch an epiphany during his ascent (-5[1])of Mont Ventoux. (-5[5])The protagonist of a book by this author reads in a garden with his friend (15[1])(*) Alypius (10[1])after he requests (10[1])to “make me chaste, but not yet.” (10[5])This (10[1])author’s mother Monica (10[2])arranges a marriage (10[1])for him (10[2])in a book (10[2])that recounts (-5[2])him stealing pears. (10[4])In that work, (10[2])a child’s voice chanting “take up and read!” prompts this author’s (10[1])conversion to Catholicism. (10[1])For 10 points, name this 5th-century author (10[2])of the (10[1])Confessions. (10[5])■END■ (10[8])

ANSWER: Saint Augustine [or Saint Augustine of Hippo or Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis] (The first and third sentences both refer to works by Petrarch.)
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