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 in this collection is a (10[2])“Prayer to (10[1])the Virgin.” Thomas Wyatt (10[1])produced the first English translation (10[2])of this collection, which opens by addressing (10[1])“you who (10[1])hear the sound in scattered (10[1])rhymes.” For 10 points, the poet professes love for Laura in what collection by Petrarch? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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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California2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%91.33
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y580%0%40%118.75
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y560%0%20%95.33
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%105.67
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%111.00
Overflow2025-02-01Y560%0%40%90.67
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%100%131.00
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%88.50
Southeast2025-02-01Y475%0%25%112.67
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%0%104.40
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y850%0%50%99.50
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y333%0%33%129.00

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