![]() ![]() ![]() The love he had for Laura was undying, unexpressed and unrequited Despite her demise, he wrote ‘Trionfi’ for her. He went ahead to buy an estate very near to his self known lover, Laura, who did not even know whether he existed.Ĩ years after Petrarch bought the estate, Laura died. However, Petrach, an ardent suitor, would not give in to such defeat. ![]() Funnily enough, Laura got married two years before their meeting. He spent much of his lifetime, admiring and fantasizing marrying a lady whom he met once in a church. In his lifetime, Petrach wrote 366 sonnets, and the vast majority of them, 317 precisely, were dedicated to a lady, named Laura, an embodiment of beauty, though she was not evidently known by people. The popular rhyme schemes of the sonnet are: ABBAABBA CDECDE or ABBAABBA CDCCDC Petrarchan Sonnet, the first type of sonnets has two parts, which are octave and sestet. With his uniqueness in writing poems, literary scholars carved out a poetry term, Petrarchan Sonnet, after him. Francesco Petrarca also known as Petrarch was an eminent literatus in the poetry world. ![]()
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