anti-Petrarchism
English edit
Etymology edit
anti- + Petrarchism
Noun edit
anti-Petrarchism (uncountable)
- A rhetorical style that deliberately rejected, parodied, or grotesquely inverted Petrarchan conventions.
- 2009, John Donne, Theodore Redpath, The Songs and Sonets of John Donne, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 49:
- There is rather little of the kind of anti-Petrarchism found in the burlesque poems of Burchiello (1404-48), Berni (1498-1535) and Aretino (1492-1556).