Abstract
Readers now recognize that the first words of Petrarch's CanzoniereVoi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse . . .-are modelled in part on Lamentations 1.12, which is spoken by a personified Jerusalem lamenting her captivity and abjection: O vos omnes qui transitis per viam, adtendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus.' Beginning a sonnet with the citation of this verse was domesticated for Italian
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