Falling in Love
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Here, Paola turns Guido's discussion of the possible stalker of an opera singer into a critique of Petrarch: "'I think that might be why Petrarch has always made me so uncomfortable.' 'What?' Brunetti asked in open astonishment. 'His thing with Laura,' she said, and Brunetti pondered those words — in the mouth of the most serious reader he had ever known, and said of the man who had taught his country to write poetry. His thing with Laura? 'I've always wondered if he simply wound himself up about her . . . one does get so tired of all the unrequited love.'"