Petrarchist

[pee-trahr-kist, pe-]

Pe·trarch·ist

[pee-trahr-kist, pe-]
noun
a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.


Origin:
1815–25; Petrarch + -ist
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