Abstract

“Amor con la man dextra il lato manco” (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta 228) is an allegorical sonnet concerning the history of the protagonist’s love for Laura. It signals a turn toward chaste love and veneration of the laurel tree, in all its multiple significations. The essay explores the tropology engaged by Petrarch in this sonnet to advance his character’s moral and spiritual quest; it examines this microtext in itself, its intertextual connections with other authors, and its intratextual connections to other Petrarchan texts, compiling the readings of recent editors and commentators on this marker poem.

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