Influenced by names the tradition a literary form grew out of. Wikipedia notes the term sonnet "derives from the Italian word sonetto (lit. little song), from the Latin word sonus, lit. sound," a lineage stretching from Latin through Italian before the form reached English poets. This dimension traces a form back to the earlier language or tradition that shaped it.
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Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era.
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