Medieval insomnia: a poem
Of all medieval Italian poets, Enrico of Settimello (fl. 1192) (or Arrighetto, as he's otherwise known) may have been the most sleep-deprived. Though we know very little about him, he seems to have had a lot in common with modern-day insomniacs. The only difference between him and most of us here is that he got up to write elegiac couplets about it. Her…