Abstract
Among the numerous Ovidian references and images underlying the Rime sparse, Orpheus stands as one of the most constant and influential figures from the Metamorphoses, as both a mythic muse and a poetic father figure for Petrarch. Petrarch explicitly casts himself in Orpheus* image in sonnet 187, in which he writes that Laura is d'Omero dignissima e d'Orfeo / . . . / ch' andassen sempre lei sola cantando [worthy of Homer and Orpheus . . . , worthy to have them always singing only of her],1 and parallels between Petrarch and Orpheus on the one hand, and Laura and Eurydice on the other hand, are clearly drawn in poem 332:
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