anti-Petrarchism

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Petrarchism.

Noun

anti-Petrarchism (uncountable)

  1. 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).