Petrarch's 1365 STRANGE PHOENIX was 'actually' a UNICORN (i.e. a single J-S conjunction)

I saw a strange phoenix, both its wings

clothed in crimson, and its head with gold,

solitary and alone in the wood,

I first thought its form heavenly and immortal

to the sight, till it reached the uprooted laurel,

and the fountain that the earth had swallowed:

all things fly towards their end:

seeing the leaves scattered on the ground,

and the broken trunk, and that dry spring,

it turned its beak on itself,

almost disdainfully, and in a moment vanished:

so that my heart burns with pity and love.

[Translation of the 5th vision in Petrarchan sonnet n. 323 (from site: www.poetryin translation.com)]