9.  Ferrara.  The old ducal palace cxxiii

10.  Portrait of Laura 1

11.  View of Rome—­st. Peter’s in the distance 66

12.  Solitudes of Vaucluse (where Petrarch wrote most of his Sonnets) 105

13.  Genoa and the apennines 124

14.  Avignon (where Laura resided) 189

15.  Selva PIANA (where Petrarch received the news of Laura’s death) 232

16.  Petrarch’s house at Arqua (where he wrote his Triumphs) 322

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF PETRARCH’S LIFE.

 A.D.  Page

1304.  Born at Arezzo, the 20th of July. ix

1305.  Is taken to Incisa at the age of seven months, where
        he remains seven years. x

1312.  Is removed to Pisa, where he remains seven months. x

1313.  Accompanies his parents to Avignon. xi

1315.  Goes to live at Carpentras. xi

1319.  Is sent to Montpelier. xi

1323.  Is removed to Bologna. xii

1326.  Returns to Avignon—­loses his parents—­contracts a
        friendship with James Colonna. xiii

1327.  Falls in love with Laura. xvii

1330.  Goes to Lombes with James Colonna—­forms acquaintance
        with Socrates and Laelius—­and returns to Avignon to
        live in the house of Cardinal Colonna. xviii

1331.  Travels to Paris—­travels through Flanders and Brabant,
        and visits a part of Germany. xxiv

1333.  His first journey to Rome—­his long navigation as
        far as the coast of England—­his return to Avignon. xxxiii

1337.  Birth of his son John—­he retires to Vaucluse. xxxv

1339.  Commences writing his epic poem, “Africa.” xxxviii

1340.  Receives an invitation from Rome to come and be
        crowned as Laureate—­and another invitation, to
        the same effect, from Paris. xlii

1341.  Goes to Naples, and thence to Rome, where he is
        crowned in the Capitol—­repairs to Parma—­death
        of Tommaso da Messina and James Colonna. xliii