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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 (10[1])in this language described how “your lovely eyes had bound me” on a “day when the sun’s ray was darkened.” (10[1])That author addressed a poetry collection in this language to “you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes.” (10[1])The phrase “abandon all hope ye who enter here” (10[2])is written on the gates of hell (10[1])in the first part of a poem (10[1])written 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■

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