Petrarch1304–1374Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.
Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta), sonnet 134, lines 1-2- Letter to Boccaccio (28 April 1373), in Robinson and Rolfe, Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898)
- Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux”, tr. James Harvey Robinson (1898)
