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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” and “thou pluckest me out.” This writer’s claim, “men wonder at the heights (-5[1])of mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea...but they consider themselves not” provided Petrarch an epiphany during his ascent of Mont Ventoux. (-5[1])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.” (10[2])This author’s mother Monica arranges a marriage for him in a book (10[1])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. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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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