Influences On The Canzoniere
Petrarch uses the Metamorphoses of Ovid to convey themes of instability, and also sources Virgil's Aeneid. Petrarch inherited aspects of artifice and rhetorical skill from Sicilian courtly poetry, including that of the inventor of the sonnet form, Giacomo da Lentini. In addition, the troubadour poets who wrote love poems concerned with chivalry in Provencal (in the canso or canzone form) are likely to have had an influence, primarily because of the position of adoration in which they placed the female figure. Dante, and the school of the 'dolce stil nuovo' or sweet new style, developed this placement of the female and proposed that the pursuit of love was a noble virtue.
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