The Italiansonnet form is commony called the Petrarchan sonnet, because Petrarch's "Canzonieri, " a sequence of poems including 317 sonnets, established the sonnet as a major form in European poetry.
The sonnet, along with other Italian forms, was introduced to England in the sixteenth century by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
16世纪初,十四行诗连同其他一些意大利文学形式,由托马斯·怀特引入英格兰。
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Because each new stanza introduces a new set of rhyming sounds, the Shakespearean sonnet is well-suited to English, which is less richly endowed than Italian with rhyming words.