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

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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