anti-Petrarchism

English

Etymology

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).

Related terms

• anti-Petrarchan