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the agudeza of the woman in Paradise to the execution of the icon, which image could not have been less than paradisiac (here Timeo's somewhat too massive dose, according to certain but not all of the interpreters, particularly the devotees of the figurative arts.
Simone died in Avignon in the summer of 1344 in the absence of the poet who had been away since the preceding September. The date of his re-arrival in Avignon is controversial, although it was certainly after the year 1333, which is inscrived in the Annunciazione now in the Uu? Uffizi. Petrarch was away from Avignon during the first half of '37 and again from February, 1341 to the Spring of 1342; it is difficult to deduce whether the portait is to be placed before or after the coronation. But it is certain that on April 17, 1338, he again saw Virgil (at this [[time?] Ambrosiano) from whom he had been separated for twelve years. It seems probable that the addition of two fogli di guardia [guard leaves]. the second of which was ornamented by the famous martinig miniature, should be placed almost cocvally? and that the lost portrait belongs to a