John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
The lecture expounds Laura’s qualities and characteristics by relying on philosophical and religious assumptions as well as by quoting and paraphrasing Petrarch’s poems from RVF and a few passages from Triumphi.
Petrarch’s texts mentioned include: RVF 159 (B1r); RVF 76 (B1r); RVF 325 (B3v); RVF 154 (B4r); Triumphus Mortis II.163-168 (B6r); RVF 213 (B7v); RVF 37 (C1r); RVF 134 (C2v); RVF 36 (C4v); RVF 71 (C5r and C8v); RVF 72 (D1r); RVF 39 (D1v); RVF 366 (D3r); RVF 323 (D3v and D5v); RVF 256 (D3v); RVF 156 (D3v); RVF 314 (D5r); Triumphus Mortis I.49-54 (D6r); Triumphus Mortis I.67-73 (D6v); Triumphus Mortis I.118-120 (D7r); RVF 338 (D7r); RVF 346 (D8r); RVF 346 (D8v); RVF 187 (D8v); RVF 5 (E1r); RVF 270 (E1v); Triumphus Pudicitiae 73-78 (E1v); RVF 341 (E2v).