On Good Friday, 1327 this Italian poet met a girl named Laura at a church in Avignon; his love for her was not returned
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Laura de Noves - Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism  Laura, illustrated by her virtues and well-celebrated in my verse, appeared to ... during my youth in 1327, on April 6, in the Church of Saint Claire in Avignon, ... saw her for the first time two years later on April 6th (Good Friday) in 1327 at ... Falling in love at first sight, Petrarch would be haunted by her beauty for the rest of his...
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Petrarch - Wikipedia  Francesco Petrarca commonly anglicized as Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet in ... In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero's letters not previously .... Petrarch is best known for his Italian poetry, notably the Canzoniere ... the sight of a woman called "Laura" in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon...
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Petrarch First Sees Laura, Lays Groundwork for Sonnets | History ...  On this day in 1327 the Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, Francesco ... first laid eyes on Laura, his idealised muse, in the Church of St Clare in Avignon. ... In 1326, after his parents died, Petrarch along his brother returned to Avignon where ... a Good Friday in a church soon after moving to Avignon that he first saw Laura.
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Petrarch facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  The Italian poet Petrarch (1304-1374), or Francesco Petrarca, is best known for the Iyric ... Petrarch saw and fell in love with the young woman whom he called Laura. ... however, no doubt regarding her reality or the intensity of the poet's passion, ... Upon returning to Avignon, he met the Augustinian scholar Dionigi di Borgo...
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Portrait of a Woman with a Volume of Petrarch by Andrea del Sarto ...  Jun 24, 2012 ... His real name was Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco but the ... Portrait of Laura Battiferri, wife of the sculptor Bartolomeo ... of today's featured painting, is the Italian artist, Andrea del Sarto. ... It was love at first sight. .... first saw her on Good Friday 1327 at Easter mass in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon.
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Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette - Feb 11, 1858 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette on Feb 11, 1858. ... The apparitions, which totaled 18 before the end of the year, occurred in a grotto of ... the Immaculate Conception, asked that a chapel be built on the site of the vision, .... Their surprise appearance and formal statement to the press put an end to...
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Divine Comedy Starlight Tower Florida St Pete Beach  To preface this page of The Divine Comedy I have borrowed a couple lines from ... was added by Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian poet and author born in Florence 1313 ... even if your Italian are not so good or you don't speak the language at all. .... his life was Beatrice Portinari a woman he met when he was only nine years old...
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OUR LADY of LOURDES - Passionist Nuns  On March 25 she said to the little shepherdess who was only fourteen years of age: ... The actual spot was in a grotto on the bank of the Gave River near Lourdes. ... On her first apparition, February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin bade the girl make ... With childlike simplicity Bernadette once sprinkled holy water on the vision,...
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Lateran Concordat of 1929 - Papal Wound Healed! - Bible Light  On February 11th, 1929, an historic treaty was signed between the Italian ... that the country feels for the Polish-born John Paul, the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 ... The Pope is again an independent sovereign ruler, as he was throughout the...
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Year of Faith | The Texas Catholic | Page 2  Nov 21, 2013 ... 22nd, 1963, I was a senior at Jesuit High School in Dallas. ... We were going to name our new baby John Fitzgerald. .... smile for each of us, and he was followed by then-VP Johnson, Gov. .... He said he and his friends got the news from a young man who ..... Usually, that was reserved for Good Friday.
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Florida Today from Cocoa, Florida  Page 30 - Newspapers.com  Jan 7, 2004 ... Pavarotti says Alice is the main reason he and Mantovani finally wed after years together. ... child, 1-year-old Alice, to whom his new album is dedicated. ... one to spend time with my daughter," says Pavarotti, who regrets not being able ... Yet it took years for him to finally record his first pop CD, "Ti Adoro "I...
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Gregory XI | pope | Britannica.com  In December 1376 peace was concluded with Florence. On Jan. 17, 1377, Gregory returned the papacy to Rome over the opposition of France ... to Anagni, his move back to Rome was a highly significant act in papal history, for the papacy, despite the reign of antipopes later in other cities, thenceforth remained at Rome.
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The Eve of St  The eve falls on January 20; the feast day on the 21. ... Keats based his poem on the superstition that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she ... The Beadsman's decision not the join the feast symbolizes his rejecting life's joys and ... Madeline, like the unshorn lambs in stanza VIII, is innocent; is it ironic that the...
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Saint Lucy's Day - Wikipedia  Saint Lucy's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Lucy, is a Christian feast day celebrated on 13 December in Advent, commemorating Saint Lucy, a 3rd-century martyr ... A special devotion to Saint Lucy is practiced in the Italian regions of Lombardy, ... mentioning St Lucy's Day as a local feast dates back to the 4th century A.D.,...
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browning-rossetti - Mural UV  Therefore, the question that we will try to answer is the following: had .... from the Portuguese were a present for Robert Browning, who she finally married. ... Rossetti declares that her love for God does not mean that she cannot love her lover too .... First of all she says that my tree of hope is lopped and spread so high that...
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John Donne: Poems Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward ...  John Donne: Poems Summary and Analysis of "Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward" ... On the day that Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus, the poet is ... and he calls upon divine mercy and grace to cleanse him of his sin so that he feels ... and here the poet asks for God's attention to punish me,/Burn off my rusts,...
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The Divine comedy;: 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot ...  The Divine comedy; [1265-1321 Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot Norton] on ... Dante's meetings with the damned are among the most memorable moments of the .... One cannot truly understand everything in Inferno without reading thru the...
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A Poet Without Honor | Christian History  Shortly before giving birth in 1265, Dante's mother had a vision. ... his first encounter with Beatrice Portinari at her father's house, when she was 8 and he was 9.
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Saint Valentine - Wikipedia  Saint Valentine officially Saint Valentine of Terni, is a widely recognized third-century Roman saint commemorated on February 14 and associated since the High Middle Ages with a tradition of courtly love. All that is reliably known of the saint commemorated on February 14 is his ... Saint Valentine's Church in Rome, built in 1960 for the needs of the Olympic...
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Today we celebrate All Saints with the Christian church by - Kickstarter  Nov 1, 2015 ... On one occasion, a woman washes the feet of Jesus with her tears and dries them off with ... Legend has it that she moved to a cave in the South of France where she spent the last 30 years of her life as a recluse. .... Saint Lucy is often depicted holding two eyes, often on a plate, sometimes her own eyes.
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D. H. Lawrence - Wikipedia  David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885  2 March 1930) was an English .... Lawrence and Frieda returned to Britain in 1913 for a short visit, during .... written up and collected together as Sketches of Etruscan Places, a book that .... Although Lawrence could be regarded as a writer of love poems, his usually...