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Sonnetsfrom “sonnetto” Italian for “little song”
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Petrarch (1304-1374)
considered the founder of the Renaissance
first Poet Laureate of Rome since ancient times when Rome was, well ROME. (yep, those are laurel leaves on his head--don’t know anything about the hoodie)
created the “sonnet” form
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a contemporary of Dante (though Dante was older)
wrote in Latin and the Italian vernacular (like Dante)
Book of Songs: (Canzoniere) 366 sonnets for Laura.
Dante had Beatrice; Petrarch had Laura (though he never “had” her...)strictly platonic (if she really existed at all)
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Petrarch saw Laura when he was in France visiting. Saw her in church supposedly.
Married to Hugues de Sade (yep, probably an ancestor of the evil Marquis de Sade)
Her name was Laure de Noves
Followed her and tried to persuade her to love him--to no avail. She was pure.
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Laura died young. Several years after her death, Maurice Sceve, a humanist, visiting Avignon had her tomb opened and discovered inside a lead box. Inside was a medal representing a woman ripping at her heart, and under that, a sonnet by Petrarch.
Petrarch’s tomb (not his actual head)
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300 years later...
The sonnet comes to England through Sir Thomas Wyatt (considered the father of the English sonnet)
served Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
Became quite the fashionable mode of competitive poetry (a sport among the literati)
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Sir Philip Sydney (Astrophel and Stella), Sir Edmund Spenser (The Fairie Queen), and William Shakespeare (a bunch of stuff) were all major sonneteers in the court of Elizabeth the Ist
Both Spenser and Shakespeare adapted and changed the sonnet form to meet their needs.
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17th, 18th, 19th, & 20th centuriesJohn Donne & Ben Jonson 17th c
John Milton (mid to late 17th c)
Thomas Gray (18th c)
Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats (the Romantics of the 18th and early 19th c)
WOMEN! Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rosetti
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Canzoniere by Petrarch
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