Petrarkizm

Petrarchism - a literary tendency based on the imitation of the Renaissance work of the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch as a model of love poetry.

In later era, Petrarch's poems had many followers. The descriptions of women's beauty contained in the poems of the Italian master have become an unattainable model for all love poets, and the name of Laura - the symbol of the perfect mistress. Petrarch's followers took over from their master the manner of presenting their beloved, subtle analyzes of feelings and stylistic features characteristic of the author's sonnets to Laura, such as antithesis and contrasts. This phenomenon of referring European poets to the medieval pattern was extremely durable, because it was alive until the 19th century. Petrarchism in Poland

Petrarchism has not gained such popularity in Poland as in other European countries. The reasons for this are complex, including lack of the tradition of neo-Platonic philosophy and the medieval love poetry of knights.

The medieval concept of love expressed in poetry has not been accepted in Poland. Only Jan Kochanowski picks up the rank of this topic in Polish literature. Polish petrarchism, however, is characterized by a departure from the Petrarchian 'I' - an egotistic subject dominating in sonnetes, towards the addressee. The Petrarchian tear: uncertainty, dilemmas, the motive of fighting against oneself and the world, the paradox of life and death occur in the work of Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński, especially in erotics. Authoritative control:

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