Question
In a poem by this author, the speaker says, “now I have become / an old tale amongst all these people” and that “shame is the fruit of my vanities.” This author wrote about the conquering of allegorical figures like Death, Fame, and Eternity in his collection Triumphs. This author described ignoring a shepherd and climbing a mountain for pleasure in one of his Epistolae familiares (“ay-PEE-stoh-lie fa-meel-YAH-rays”) about his “Ascent of Mont Ventoux (“vawn-TOO”).” A woman whom this author met in Avignon on Good Friday is the addressee of a collection which opens with the line “You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes.” For 10 points, name this author who wrote about his love for Laura in Il Canzoniere, a 14th-century Italian poet. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Richard Niu | Cornell C | Rutgers B | 49 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | NYU B | 60 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Vassar | 61 | 10 |
Alex Moon | Penn A | Penn B | 63 | 10 |
Karsten Rynearson | Yale A | Princeton B | 63 | 10 |
Andre Wong | Columbia B | Princeton A | 64 | 10 |
Ethan Furman | Haverford | Yale C | 115 | 10 |
Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan A | Bard A | 117 | -5 |
William Helman | Bard A | Rowan A | 122 | 0 |