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Laura does not "signify" a metaphysical reality but summarizes the goals of an earthly aspiration to perfection within the limits of human nature. But because such perfection is necessarily bound to the physical and is subject to and enclosed within the limits of time, it must inevitably remain unachievable and hence a perpetual source of restlessness and grief. '' This is why, in the Secretum, St. Augustine constantly associates the poet's love of Laura with "amor rerum temporalium" (pp. 262-264).
Peter's, the elaborate ceremonies that prevailed throughout the coronation with their implications of the close ties between classical and Christian Rome, and the fact that the crown had been bestowed upon Petrarch for his accomplishments as poet, historian, and teacher tell us a great deal about Petrarch's view of poetry. Similarly, the Eclogue Dedalus written some five years later affords further insights into this view. In it Petrarch accepts Virgil's account of Dedalus as the originator of the cult of Apollo in Italy, as the builder of the first temple to poetry in Italy, and as the first consecrator of the Italic progeny to the god of the arts.
As perhaps the most sensitive man of letters of his time, Petrarch felt very keenly the deep crises that were plaguing European society economically, spiritually, politically, and culturally in the waning years of the Middle Ages. The new, pragmatic approaches to reality were seriously threatening traditional institutions and values based on transcendental ideals. The nominalist attempt at compromise with the doctrine of the double truths, the religious and the rational, had some positive effect, but not on writers such as Petrarch who to the end of his life considered the ascetic ideal, as modified by Roman culture, the loftiest that man can aspire to.
