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“Benedetto sia ‘l giorno, et ‘l mese, et l’anno, / et la stagione, e’l tempo, et l’ora, e ‘l punto…” — Rvf 61
“Benedetto sia ‘l giorno, et ‘l mese, et l’anno, / et la stagione, e’l tempo, et l’ora, e ‘l punto…” — Rvf 61
Image Gallery
“L'opra fu ben di quelle che nel aielo/ si ponno imaginar”(Rvf.77.9-10)
– “This work [of art] is truly one of those that might /be conceived in heaven” (Kline)
Raffaello Morghen / Da Vincenzo Gozzini – Sumner, Charles (1875) The Best Portraits in Engraving (5th ed.), New York: Keppel & Co. OCLC: 17144657.
Funerary epigraph for his grandson, Epigrafe funeraria, datata 1368, di Francesco da Brossano, dettata da Francesco Petrarca. Musei civici di Pavia.
“Laura de Noves, 1307/1308-1348, Friend of Petrarch,”c. 1530, lead, Italian 16th Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“ Portrait of Laura, celebrated in the poetry of Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian poet and humanist.” Portrait in the Laurentian Library, Florence. Unknown date and artist.
Petrarch’s house at Arquà Petrarca, (which he references the Seniles, XV.5). Alain Rouiller, 2009.