Question

The Autobiografia sonnet sequence appears in a work titled for this collection whose final edition in 1947 included over 400 poems; that collection with this title catalogues the life’s work of Triestine poet Umberto Saba. The speaker of this collection sees a hind caught by dogs and a foundering ship among six visions outside a window in a poem that puns on his lover’s name and a kind of tree. This collection is traditionally divided into poems “in life” and “in death.” The 366th and final poem (10[2])in this collection is a “Prayer to the Virgin.” Thomas Wyatt produced the first English translation (10[1])of this collection, which opens by addressing “you who hear the sound in scattered rhymes.” For 10 points, the poet professes love for Laura in what collection by Petrarch? ■END■

ANSWER: Il Canzoniere (“eel kant-zone-YAY-ray”) [or The Songbook; accept Rerum vulgarium fragmenta; accept Rime Sparse; accept Scattered Rhymes until “scattered” is read]
<Maryland A, European Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin ParkClaremont AUCLA8610
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BUCSD8610
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AClaremont B10210

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