, 1874-08-13
PETRARCH.

Celebration OF tho Five nundrcdth
Anniversary Of Ills Doath.
Grand Feto ut Ayignon --- Tho
Beautiful Laura OF Moves.
Apiqnon tJA1y 24) CpyYxspnadsncs qf the Eeto York
Herald.
For ttroo days tho auciont Clly Of AYfRnon
las been In full holiday trim, celebrating Tho
boot' anniversary OF tho poot resrarch'a doath'
Avignon was for aixty. lvo ycara
THE nEs1DEAcE or THE TorEs.
It wah Clement v, Fretlcb1nan. Who ln
1906. transported tllo papal SEQ from homo to
-Ayignon, being inpelIea to do 50 W the
troubled condition OF tho pontiicni stntcs, tho
:inha bitanta whereof impo1itcly anu Armly
irofyeod TO nay taxes. Clonleus had no abso-
.ltlto light to applopriato Aylgncn, but ho
,hascd lis olaln on = decd Of salo made by
.1uulllln nf Naples, who stipulated In exchange
tor HU,NV0 cyowug at gold. Considering tiat
pritlccss Juu1..a wan lut IL years old wllon sho
wat moved to sitn thH ins1ra'nionk, any modern
,sulno with arl ego Of lnfstrust, mud tho more 30
ns lilo rapal CoU,t, aftor giving tho maltor much
pious thought. resolvcu to keep tho city without
paying thu st.0'0 crowns Of gold. Thls suIn IL
I i,ayo my fcars that It will neyer be roim-
:burBod. Ifoveyor tho popes lived fatty
nul torcuoly in tho city which they Lad c1everly
incurred ma vs. may 81 write down i our note
:1l1H-34; Benedict NIL, 1334-42; Clcment W.,
13l2-59; Iunpoent VI, lS52-G2; Urbrn v, 1907
20; aud Gregory &I., during whose rolgn tho
sce "as rostofoa to Rome, aud the u Dabylon-
ia1p tritch nf
NJ end. Altar THIS. howover, three holf-calcd
Popos. Clonent VII, Bonatllct Kill, and Clom-
ent VIII. bold court in Av!gnon from 1873 to
1A24, bat tho faithful regard thcse as spurious
md Dos,theus tho Samaritan. Al tho death
Of tho paouau Uiomont WILL, tho sclistn tor
minated aud Avigmon boenno tho second city
OF tne iapauy. L ,, was seized during fow
nontnb by Louis XIV, in rovongo for an Insult
oGered to bis ambassador a. Rome, and Louis
XIV. occupiod 1t ton years for similar reason
but 1t was not finally auncxed to France TIL 1791.
Ayignon derives less instro from having boon
Potrarch Ieuidod during tho most Of Ills life In its
noiEhborhood. But Who WAS potfarch, aud what
magic Is tern in tho mah's name to draw 10000
strangers quo years aftor Ills dosth, to tho haunts
which ho loved?
rttAauEsco pETnAum
Was born at Arozxo III 1909 OF d rich but honest
father, wbo sooa after bcgettlng son Was oxlled
from Italy along viii. Danto, on account OF bis
non, aud when his sou 1inuois had reached the
AGO of - sont him to study law at tho University
ef Montpelier. But Inv had no attractions for
young FrnnciB, nnd no aoonBr bad he become IN
orplnn--whioE 1amontablo oscut occurred whom
ho was l8-tlan ho gavo lfmAolf up wholly to
poetry.
III writing light Bonnets. full Of tho nayward lire
of youth; dreaming dreams Of love and ambi-
-he passed four yoara, till ono summer MORN
ing, in tue ycAr 1927, % no TAB passing tho
aoora Of tho Cathedral Of Notro Dame do
Dominls, be SAN the woman whose image never
afterwards fadod from his heart,
THE DFAUTIFuL LAURA or MOVES.
potrarch wan then % aud Laura 20. but she
WIS airoady married to Audbort do Noyes,
. grim ,soignoar, whose ordinary clothing
'.odate lady, With TRANQUIL eyes,, waving raven
'hair, dimpling cheoks ), but lips firm set
that occasloned such .wrotchcdnesg to poor
to love, honor, aud obey The grim Audtbort In
tho iron clothes, and with chaSte perempt0riness
tloy sent young I'otrarch about bis business.
In vain did LIE break out into worse and Sigh, in
vain d1d his passion rage and bubn1e.tne beau
tiful Laura was The prototype Of Gocthe'a Char
lotte. WHO Displayed such lufexibiltty to
Wcrther; aud had Petrarch choHen to make
away with himHolf at Werthor did, thero is no
reason to doubt that Laura would havo oVinced
the equanimity which Thsckeray has oommemo-
Charlotte, sa when .a ahe 81 81" ,' hia noas,
1;Ia harns ss1i'couctoi yGaosO nnr oh nsraon
Wsn, on c,,tts,.r f,sn5 ,0sao sn' h,,ttsr
1,.u,-,.% 49, 49, LII t,;nnvotf h,t f,nd,, .t.4
III au haart of ~, ad"msnt he haoa,na 'A4a'
AauEa na' u n'"'' W aunusa'' s'nnu ue o'e@'ne
an, ...~tad a, a vofl,n. oS1, fonr thro,o1, r,,,ea
snI a ,har1n,.ds ~ trx;n" ,,nsmcaeaaf,x 70
eha thS Mesnernos, 'ftns, at'n1 ansaceGse'nay, to
lorset @ ~ ns ha,sa ~ Vaciusa 10
GOWN i 'to ~ s'a ;s nSHe gno'
anu otsam na uana'1 n aaa aoso;
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nn ar ~ teni;,, - S,d;ho, -, M uaa se
a M' u Tu'o ,rfes nGno waa haoa n"rvs ,,,,s
to na'I tbe fonr Winds of he.yen 1s ,y vuns :
Sim ret,shaoaoI an ,r;ar hut ,orI,a,,s
eanso to a satisen with rnmra'a f3i7ai}v 1ar fne
.thas lnGv proseltctl him roeulnliy eTerv tweyo ,
nM,nbrr of thoap oi;So iranchoa rcacbad oiavsm to
n tho ,nen,,mo the af,};ctsI pasrsrnt AZ nnt
4,a1.a anci' III tnn1 n't - a ,.tan,1sI uu nos
invo nencct y1I da,;vn,eI t ~ sa,,.,os
ayt ons 1cImsnn,1 nava i;n css,a~a, a 1.;.'1<,
1;e'd;ns r;ch reSnnyes I'm" noharb -, Nsni6S
nnna - Harm. an,na,nnott In, - ~; n,i,,t tus
ouno ~ - Ai IL: It'sIo1ou It ~: nn W u'e Ducofs