Song Book

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Song Book is the common English title for Petrarch’s "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta," a seminal collection of Italian lyric poems that helped shape Renaissance literature.

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instanceOf Italian literature work
lyric poetry collection
poetry collection
approximateEndOfComposition 1374
approximateStartOfComposition 1327
author Francesco Petrarca NERFINISHED
Petrarch NERFINISHED
containsForm ballata
canzone
madrigal
sestina
sonnet
countryOfOrigin Italy
form sonnet sequence
genre love poetry
lyric poetry
hasAlternativeTitle Canzoniere NERFINISHED
hasItalianNickname Il Canzoniere NERFINISHED
hasLatinTitle Rerum vulgarium fragmenta NERFINISHED
hasOriginalTitle Rerum vulgarium fragmenta NERFINISHED
hasOriginalTitleInItalian Rerum vulgarium fragmenta NERFINISHED
hasPart poem about the first sight of Laura
poems written after Laura’s death
hasTitleInEnglish Song Book
historicalContext Italian Trecento NERFINISHED
influenced European love poetry tradition
Italian Renaissance literature
Renaissance lyric poetry
language Italian
literaryMovement Renaissance literature
literarySignificance foundational text of Renaissance lyric tradition
major influence on European sonnet tradition
seminal work of Italian lyric poetry
mainTheme love for Laura NERFINISHED
religious devotion
spiritual conflict
time and mortality
meter Italian hendecasyllabic verse
notableCharacter Laura NERFINISHED
periodOfComposition 14th century
prefigures Renaissance humanism in lyric form
structure ordered sequence of lyric poems
style Petrarchan NERFINISHED
subjectOf Petrarchan studies
Renaissance literary criticism

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