Laura

Laura was a young Avignonese married lady, for whom Petrarch (1304 – 1374) conceived a Platonic affection, and who exercised a lifelong influence over him. Francis Petrarch had seen her in the Sainte-Claire d'Avignon church in 1327 after he gave up his vocation as a priest. She died in 1348.

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