His words were the following:-- "Laura, illustrious for her virtues, and for a long time celebrated in my verses, for the first time appeared to my eyes on the 6th of April, 1327, in the church of St.Clara, at the first hour of the day.

I was then in my youth.

In the same city, and at the same hour, in the year 1348, this luminary disappeared from our world.

I was then at Verona, ignorant of my wretched situation.

Her chaste and beautiful body was buried the same day, after vespers, in the church of the Cordeliers.