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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince."
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
koldewyse commented on the word petrarchan
A type of sonnet, although vastly overshadowed by its Shakespearean brother.
December 16, 2007