petrarchist

Petrarchist [pee-trahr-kist, pe-] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style. Liberaldictionary.com

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Also Petrarchan. Origin of Petrarchist First recorded in 1815–25; Petrarch + -ist Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for petrarchist Historical Examples of petrarchist

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

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Surrey, while adopting the form of the sonnet, kept quite clear of the Petrarchist’s mannerism.

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Even Michelangelo Buonarroti was at times a Petrarchist, but his poems bear the stamp of his extraordinary and original genius.

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