Thread: Catullus 13 and the Petrarchan sonnet
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Unread 04-06-2022, 10:57 AM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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Petrarch was born in 1304. He may well, from what I know of his love of Classics, have noted the Catullus and found inspiration there. But the form predates Catullus’s rediscovery, and that matters.

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