An Italian poet and scholar of the fourteenth century whose collection of vernacular love poems for a woman he called Laura, the Canzoniere, fixed the Italian sonnet as a vehicle for interior emotional address and became the model European poets imitated, adapted and reacted against for the next three centuries. His sonnets are built from an eight line octave that states a problem or mood and a six line sestet that turns to answer, reflect on or complicate it, a structure now called the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet to distinguish it from the English variant later developed by Surrey and Shakespeare. Petrarch also revived interest in classical Latin literature and is widely credited as an early figure of Renaissance humanism.
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Was Petrarch actually crowned poet laureate?
Yes. He was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome on 8 April 1341.
Yes. After his Latin epic poem Africa, about the Roman general Scipio Africanus, made him a European celebrity, Petrarch was crowned on 8 April 1341 on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. He is described as the second poet laureate since classical antiquity, and the crowning was performed by the Roman senators Giordano Orsini and Orso dell'Anguillara.
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Canzoniere already in-genre Lyric Poetry; Petrarch himself carried no in-genre edge to it.
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Influenced
Surrey translated Petrarch's sonnets into English alongside Wyatt, the direct textual link the atlas did not yet carry.
Source Petrarchan Sonnet (Wikipedia)
Wyatt is credited with introducing the Petrarchan sonnet into English through his translations of Petrarch and his own original poems in the form, consistent with the live associated-with edge from The Petrarchan Sonnet to Wyatt.
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Source Wikipedia: Il Canzoniere
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Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Infobox, birth_date
1304-07-20
Infobox, death_date
1374-07-19
Youth and early career
he became the second poet laureate since classical antiquity
Original language statement
Francis Petrarch (born Francesco di Petracco; 20 July 1304-19 July 1374) was an Italian scholar and poet of the early Italian Renaissance, as well as one of the earliest Renaissance humanists.
In Genre: Lyric Poetry, Introductory section, model for lyrical poetry
Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.
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Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Influenced: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Form section
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are both known for their translations of Petrarch's sonnets from Italian into English.
Influenced: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Form section
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are both known for their translations of Petrarch's sonnets from Italian into English.
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