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Laura subject of the love poems of Petrarch . She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?-1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved.

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Laura,
1. see Petrarch;

2. the wife of Beppo in Byron's poem Beppo.

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Laura Petrarch's name for the woman in praise of whom his sonnet sequence is written.

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