Canzoniere

Italian lyric collection

A canzoniere is a collection of lyric poems, especially love poems in the Italian tradition.

The term comes from Italian, meaning "songbook." The most famous is Petrarch's fourteenth-century *Canzoniere*, addressed to his beloved Laura, which established conventions of love poetry that influenced European literature for centuries.

He studied the Petrarchan canzoniere in his Renaissance literature course.

Petrarch

sonnets

Fourteen-line rhymed poems

LauraWoman's given name
lyricSong's text
RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening

Italian · poetry · beloved · unrequited · vernacular · sequence · devotion · idealization · courtly · verse

genre

poetic form

Verse's structural template

love poetryPoems expressing romantic affection
rimeGranular ice deposit
canzoneItalian lyric poem

sestina · metrical · hendecasyllable · octave · sestet · quatrain · couplet · envoi · refrain

songbook

anthology

Collected literary works volume

collectionGathered set of items
lyricsWritten words for music
poemsLiterary works in verse

compilation · verses · odes · ballads · canzone · madrigals · compositions · gathered · volume · manuscript

Canzoniere

sonnets

poetic form

anthology

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