Petrarchist

[ pee-trahr-kist, pe- ]

noun

a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.

Origin of Petrarchist

First recorded in 1815–25; Petrarch + -ist

Surrey, while adopting the form of the sonnet, kept quite clear of the Petrarchist's mannerism.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series | John Addington Symonds
Even Michelangelo Buonarroti was at times a Petrarchist, but his poems bear the stamp of his extraordinary and original genius.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 8 | Various
The Petrarchist would have loathed the Platonist as a moral Pariah.
A Problem in Greek Ethics | John Addington Symonds

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