Petrarchist
[pee-trahr-kist, pe-]
- a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
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Origin of Petrarchist
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The Petrarchist would have loathed the Platonist as a moral Pariah.
A Problem in Greek EthicsJohn Addington Symonds
Surrey, while adopting the form of the sonnet, kept quite clear of the Petrarchist's mannerism.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second SeriesJohn Addington Symonds
Even Michelangelo Buonarroti was at times a Petrarchist, but his poems bear the stamp of his extraordinary and original genius.