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Quote #4
And her divine behavior,
her face and words and her sweet smile
so filled me with forgetfulness
and so divided me
from the true image
that I would sigh and say:
"Just how and when did I come here?"
thinking I was in Heaven, not where I was (56-63)
This is Girl Power in the fourteenth century. Laura's face is not the only thing that allures: it's the way she walks and talks, as well. She is sweet and mild and kind—and beautiful. Perhaps it was a good thing that Petrarch never really got to know her.