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Meaning of anti-Petrarchism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A rhetorical style that deliberately rejected, parodied, or grotesquely inverted Petrarchan conventions.

uncountable

Examples

“There is rather little of the kind of anti-Petrarchism found in the burlesque poems of Burchiello (1404-48), Berni (1498-1535) and Aretino (1492-1556).”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

anti-porner anti-Putinism anti-Putinist anti-racial anti-racialization anti-rad

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