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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 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[2])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 (10[1])arranges a marriage for him in a book that recounts (-5[2])him stealing pears. 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 (10[1])of the Confessions. (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

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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