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Petrarch, Laura, "Letter to Posterity"
On this day in 1374, or perhaps the day before, Petrarch died; and tomorrow is the 701st anniversary of his birth. He was a friend and contemporary of Boccaccio, and just a generation younger than Dante, but Petrarch's most formative relationship was the one he never had with "Laura." Some scholars hold that she was only an idealization, others think that she was an ancestor of the Marquis de Sade; either way, Petrarch wrote 366 enduring sonnets to her over a decade. |
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Familiar Letters
Selected letters from James Harvey Robinson's Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters (1898), courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project. |  | Francesco Petrarch and Laura de Noves
Large website offering the full electronic texts of the Canzoniere, Familiar Letters, Seniles, Secretum, Trionfi, and The Tale of Griselda. Also offers biographies of Petrarch and Laura de Noves, answers to frequently asked questions, and essays and analysis on Humanism, philosophy, love, the writer's inner struggles, nationalism, and other topics. Also offers a small selection of links, and a wonderful image gallery. | |
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