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Italian sonnet

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Italian sonnet
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Noun1.Italian sonnet - a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme


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Written by Professor Dvora Bregman, The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet During the Renaissance and the Baroque examines the history of the Hebrew sonnet from its inception circa the year 1300 in Italy, almost parallel to the first Italian sonnets, to its spread and metamorphosis throughout Europe and the Turkish Empire.
When she deals with the sonnets, Baker starts with a very original and convincing analysis of Labe's Italian sonnet, "so often dismissed as merely a dry technical exercise" (139); her other analyses of the sonnets are equally persuasive.
 
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