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The personification of Death plucks a golden hair from this man’s lover in a section of his collection Triumphs. An unfinished collection of biographies comprises this man’s On Illustrious Men. (15[1])In a poem found in his collection Epistulae Fimulares, this man claimed how he was the first person since antiquity who climbed a (*) mountain for its view. The line “you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes” opens this author’s 366-poem collection Il Canzoniere. A poetic form developed by this author consists of an octave followed by a sestet. For 10 points, name this early Renaissance poet who addressed many of his namesake sonnets to his lover, Laura. ■END■

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