Round 9: Tossup 11

A work in this language opens by describing “the book of my memory,” which contains the heading “here begins the new life.” Another author who wrote in this language described how “your lovely eyes had bound me” on a “day when the sun’s ray was darkened.” That author addressed a poetry collection in this language to “you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes.” The phrase “abandon all hope ye who enter here” (10[1])is written (-5[1])on the gates of hell in the first part of a poem (-5[1])written (10[1])in this language. (10[1])For 10 points, the Divine Comedy and Il Canzoniere (“eel kant-zone-YAY-ray”) were written in what language, which was used by Petrarch and Dante Alighieri? ■END■ (10[1])

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