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Show Famous Women Laura De Noves, made famous by Petrarch, waa a real flesh and blood woman, although Idealised by the bard Into an angelic creature fit only to live among the stars. She waa not yet 20 and Petrarch waa 21 when they first met. Laura waa a married woman, but that did not prevent pre-vent th poet from bee tow mg upon her a devotion that continued to her death, more than twenty years afterward. She wna th theme of th aeries of sonnets which hav mad th name of Petrarch Immortal. Although ever fame waa thua spread all over Italy, it did not add to her happiness, for her husband, naturally of a Jealous disposition, was enraged , by th celebrity given to his spouse. I h had no esus of complaint in her I action, for ahe remained faithful to . her vow, and bore him ten children, i The constant persecution and brutality of bar Jealous husband ended only with her death In 114. which waa due to the plagu Th widower married again within seven months. ' -Th . moat chaste snd beautiful lady," wrote Petrarch, "was buried on th earn day of her death. Her soul returned, I feel most sasured. ta heaven, heav-en, whene it came.'" |