ORIGIN AND FEATURES OF THE SONNET GENRE

The sonnet is ancient, but not old-fashioned. Unlike elegy, hymn or ode, it is not a classical poetic genre. Rather, it was written at the court of Frederick II in Sicily in the 13th century AD. This palace was a cultural center from 1220 to 1250 and created the Sicilian school of poetry, the starting point of the Italian literary tradition. This article examines the characteristics of the sonnet genre and where it originated.