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Parole Identiche in the Sonnet and Other Verse Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Joseph G. Fucilla*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University

Extract

Some time during the first half of the fifteenth century there came into being a new type of sonnet the existence of which writers of Italian manuals of versification have either overlooked, ignored, looked upon as an isolated phenomenon, or connected with other devices that bear to it but a remote historical relationship. The most immediate model of this new form is the sonetto equivoco—a favorite artifice from the first century of Italian literature to the end of the Trecento—in which the rime equivoche of the simple variety are extended to all of the fourteen verses. Petrarch's Quand'io son tutto … is the best known example of a sonnet with equivocal rime words.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1935

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