词汇 | laura |
词源 | Laura. It was the day when the sun’s heavy rays Grew pale in the pity of his suffering Lord When I fell captive, lady, to the gaze Of your fair eyes, fast bound in love’s strong cord. The Laura of Petrach’s immortal love poems was no figment of the poet’s imagination. According to tradition, the poet laure- ate of Rome wrote his poems for Laura, the daughter of Au- dibert de Noves and the wife of Count Hugues de Sade, an an- cestor of the French nobleman who gave us sadism. Petrarch never revealed the real Laura’s identity, guarding his secret jealously, but he wrote that he saw her for the first time in the church of St. Clara at Avignon on April 6, 1327, and that his first sight of her inspired him to become a poet. In the 18th century the Abbé de Sade identified her as the wife of Hugues de Sade; she bore the old man 11 children before dying of the plague in 1348 when she was only 40. But this identification is not certain. It is known only that Laura was a married woman who accepted Petrarch’s devotion but refused all intimate rela- tions. Their platonic love inspired the long series of poems that are among the most beautiful amorous verse in literature, the most famous being the sonnet in praise of their first meet- ing quoted above. The Italians call this collection of lyrics the Canzoniere and it is titled Rime in Vita e Morte di Madonna Laura. Petrarch died long after his Laura (whoever she was), in 1374 in his 70th year. |
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