Il Canzoniere

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Il Canzoniere is a seminal collection of Italian lyric poems by Francesco Petrarca that helped shape Renaissance humanism and the development of modern European poetry.

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Canzoniere 3
Il Canzoniere canonical 1
Petrarch’s Canzoniere 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian literature work
lyric poetry collection
poetry collection
altTitle Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
altTitleLanguage Latin
associatedWith Avignon Papacy
author Francesco Petrarca
Petrarch
linked to: Francesco Petrarca
compositionEnd circa 1374
compositionStart circa 1327
culturalSignificance foundational work of Italian literature
model for European sonnet sequences
firstPersonNarration true
form Italian sonnet
genre Renaissance poetry
love poetry
lyric poetry
hasPart ballata
canzone
madrigal
sestina
sonnet
influenced English Renaissance poetry
French Renaissance poetry
Italian Renaissance lyric tradition
Petrarchism
Renaissance humanism
modern European poetry
languageRegister vernacular
literaryForm sequence of love poems
literaryMovement Renaissance humanism
mainTheme fame and glory
love for Laura
spiritual conflict
time and mortality
metricalScheme endecasillabo (hendecasyllabic verse)
notableCharacter Laura
numberOfPoems 366
originalLanguage Italian
period Trecento
precededBy Dolce Stil Novo tradition
linked to: Dolce Stil Novo
relatedWork Divine Comedy
setting Avignon
Vaucluse
structure ordered sequence of poems
theme conflict between earthly love and Christian piety
inner psychological analysis
titleLanguage Italian

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Francesco Petrarca notableWork Il Canzoniere
Francesco Petrarca notableWork Canzoniere
linked to: Il Canzoniere
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta alsoKnownAs Canzoniere
linked to: Il Canzoniere
Petrarchan sonnet tradition developedFrom Petrarch’s Canzoniere
linked to: Il Canzoniere
Tuscan dialect usedInWork Canzoniere
linked to: Il Canzoniere