Petrarkismus

Petrarchism is a new stylistic form, which separates the mediaeval minnesang, and which extended far into the modern age, B. William Shakespeare strongly influenced.

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is the founder of the style. The Italian poet and humanist, with his love lyric, exerted a great influence on European poetry. The love of a certain Laura, to which he directed his works, was decisive for his love affair.

The basic principles of the erotic situation are taken from the Minnesang. The man is the lamenting and humble slave who suffers cruel love, his heart is devoured by the passion of love. While the man is only a living dead man, the woman to whom the man feels attracted to him is cold and cruel to him and does not pay attention to him.

In the Baroque, Petrarchism was occasionally used vice versa. The so-called spiritual Petrarchism, in contrast to the secular, describes the suffering and complaining from the perspective of woman.

Typical women are: The heart is like diamond, the cheeks are like roses, their hair is gold and their breasts are like marble balls.

Petrarchism has often been criticized for its unnaturalness, which is reinforced by the constant development of the love story in the lyrical works affected by this style.

He was shaped by a rigid schema, stereotypical formulations, antithetics and metaphors. Edit source text

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