Italian poetry
Sonnets from Rome
Italian poetry encompasses verse written in Italian, a tradition stretching from medieval troubadours through Dante, Petrarch, and into modernity.
The term often evokes specific forms that originated in Italy—the sonnet, terza rima, ottava rima—which spread throughout European literature.
She studied Italian poetry to understand the sonnet's origins.
- MedievalOf the 5th-15th centuries
- PetrarchMedieval Italian lyric poet
- hendecasyllableEleven-syllable metrical line
- CanzonierePetrarch's lyric poetry collection
- meterDevice that measures usage
Dante Alighieri · octave · sestet · Renaissance · Futurism · volta · Inferno · Humanism · verse · Baroque · Dante · dolce · lament · sonnet · muse · Florence · Tuscan · Beatrice
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