Petrarchist

American  

[pee-trahr-kist, pe-] / ˈpi trɑr kɪst, ˈpɛ- /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of Petrarchist

First recorded in 1815–25; Petrarch + -ist

Example Sentences

The Petrarchist would have loathed the Platonist as a moral Pariah.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

The Platonist, as appears from numerous passages in the Platonic writings, would have despised the Petrarchist as a vulgar woman-lover.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

The reader must be a true Petrarchist who is unconscious of a general similarity in the character of his sonnets, which, in the long perusal of them, amounts to monotony.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas