The present essay aims to shed light on three sonnets by the Florentine poet Ventura Monachi as amongst the earliest examples of the reception of Petrarch’s Rvf 23. After suggesting a date for the sonnets, the author elucidates the manners of the formal imitation of the model and proves that Ventura is among the first poets who adapted Petrarch’s new “Laura-lauro” poetic system. Furthermore, the author thinks of inserting the three sonnets into a “mini collection” within which Ventura places and celebrates Petrarch among the models of the lyric tradition.
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