Abstract
AbstractIt is impossible to reopen the issue of the identity of Petrarch's Laura without eventually tackling the problems arising from the case presented by the Abbe de Sade. The difficulties associated with his identification of Laura with Laure de Noves offer two broad areas of investigation: those connected with the authenticity of his pieces justificatives and those involving an assessment of the anagraphical details which identify Laura with the wife of Hugues de Sade. Of these two series of problems the historical ones appear to be the more easily resolved, because the wealth of evidence produced suggests that the historical case is anything but fictitious. It is consequently with the second set of problems that we shall mainly be dealing here, since the identification of Laura with Laure de Noves depends entirely on one or two dates and a few other factual details whose accuracy it appears nowadays virtually impossible to check. However, even when we are concentrating our attention on the problems ...
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