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| July 19, 1374 |
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| Francesco Petrarch (1304 - 1374) |
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Petrarch, Laura, "Letter to Posterity"
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| by Steve King |
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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 a generation younger than Dante -- both Dante's and Petrarch's father were expelled from Florence in the same year -- but Petrarch's most formative relationship was the one he never had with "Laura." Though some scholars hold that she was only an idealization, others think that she was not only real but an ancestor of the Marquis de Sade. Petrarch seems to have noted the date of his first glance -- April 6th, 1327; while at church, in Avignon, France -- on the flyleaf of his copy of 
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