Italian sonnet

American  

noun

1. Petrarchan sonnet.

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Italian sonnet British  

noun

1. another term for Petrarchan sonnet

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Etymology

Origin of Italian sonnet

First recorded in 1875–80

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Example Sentences

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Italian sonnet

Tercet, a group of three lines, especially in the sestet of the Italian sonnet, 102, 120.

From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum

The Italian sonnet is, both in its form and spirit, a thing so foreign to the English idea of what poetry should be, that no cultivation can ever domesticate it into the tongue.

From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman

In the Miltonic, or Italian, sonnet a group of eight lines, linked by two rhymes each occurring four times, is followed by a group of six lines linked by three rhymes each occurring twice.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

The delicate form of the Italian sonnet, as copied by Sidney from Bembo and Molza and Costanzo, contained within it the exotic and exquisite ideal passion of the "Vita Nuova" and Petrarch.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Vernon Lee

A few moments after something turned his thoughts in another direction, and he was discussing with Lady Stanley the translation into English of an Italian sonnet which he thought was badly done.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

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