That Petrarch, oppressed as he was with anxiety about his friend, should fall into fanciful reveries during his sleep, and imagine that he saw him in the paleness of death, was nothing wonderful--nay, that he should frame this allegory in his dream is equally conceivable.
The sleeper's imagination is often a great improvisatore.

It forms scenes and stories; it puts questions, and answers them itself, all the time believing that the responses come from those whom it interrogates.
Petrarch, deeply attached to Azzo da Correggio, now began to consider himself as settled at Parma, where he enjoyed literary retirement in the bosom of his beloved Italy.

But he had not resided there a year, when he was summoned to Avignon by orders he considered that he could not disobey.

Tiraboschi, and after him Baldelli, ascribe his return to Avignon to the commission which he received in 1342, to go as advocate of the Roman people to the new Pope, Clement VI., who had succeeded to the tiara on the death of Benedict XII., and Petrarch's own words coincide with what they say.

The feelings of joy with which Petrarch revisited Avignon, though to appearance he had weaned himself from Laura, may be imagined.