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Petrarchal, a.|pɪˈtrɑːkəl| [f. Petrarch, It. Petrarca, personal surname + -al1.] Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Italian poet Petrarca or Petrarch (1304–74). So Peˈtrarchan a. (also as n. = Petrarchist), Petrarˈchesque, Peˈtrarchian adjs.; Petrarchism |ˈpiːtrɑːkɪz(ə)m|, imitation of the style of Petrarch; ˈPetrarchist, an imitator of Petrarch; Petrarˈchistical a., imitative of Petrarch; ˈPetrarchize v. intr., to imitate Petrarch's style.
1818Keats Let. Wks. 1889 III. 159 Were it my choice, I would reject a *Petrarchal coronation.
1827Beddoes Let. Apr., Poems (1851) p. lxix, The sonnets, &c. are much more to my taste than that *Petrarchan ‘eau d'Hippocrène sucrée’. 1881Athenæum 28 May 714/2 Conforming the structure of his sonnet to the Petrarchan type. 1904Q. Rev. July 5 Wyatt..leaned upon the forms of Italy—the porcelain sonnet of the Petrarchans, the satiric terza rima of the Alamanni.
1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. v. §11 note, It is..*Petrarchesque in a high degree.
a1801R. Gall Poems (1819) 12 His sweet *Petrarchian lay.
1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 506/1 From this period [14th century] also dates that literary phenomenon known under the name of *Petrarchism.
1823Roscoe Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. xv. 438 He ridiculed both the pedants and *Petrarchists. 1897W. P. Ker Epic & Rom. 233 The ideal of Petrarch was formulated and abused by the Petrarchists.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. x. (1632) 228 Fantasticall, new fangled, Spagniolized, and *Petrarchisticall elevations.
1593Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 93 All the noblest Italian, French, and Spanish Poets, haue in their seuerall Veines *Petrarchised. 1611Cotgr., Petrarquiser, to Petrarkise it, to write like a passionate louer. 1902Q. Rev. Oct. 440 That was the direction in which he [Surrey] Petrarchised. |