‘Morning Prayer’ - Charles West (British, 1811 - 1890), The Yale Centre for British Art

Laura, famous for her own virtues, and so long celebrated in my verses, was first seen by me in my early youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth of April, in the Church of Saint Clare at Avignon, in the morning hour: and that light was taken from daylight in the same city, in the same month, on the same sixth day, in the same first morning hour, but in the year 1348, when I chanced to be in Verona, sadly unaware of my fate.

- Added by Petrarch to his copy of Virgil

‘Avignon’ - Histoire des Villes de France (p92, Paris 1844), Aristide Guilbert, The British Library