Laura and Petrarch: Love in a Landscape

An early illustrated manuscript (14-15 c.)of Petrarch's Canzoniere. The classic picture of courtship in the countryside reappears regularly hereafter, not least in Shakespeare's play As You Like It, when Orlando courts Rosalind in the Forest of Arden. Picture and data courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share- Alike License (Wikipedia)