sonetton.
/səˈnɛtəʊ/, U.S. /səˈnɛdoʊ/ A short poem, esp. in Italian; (sometimes) spec. a sonnet (sonnet n. 2).
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1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. L Thus Gentlemen haue you heard my verdite in this Sonetto.
1730 Present State Republick Lett. 5 iv. 65 Petrarch's three famous Sonetto's..shew sufficiently what the men of sense in those days thought of their Ecclesiastical Governors.
1832 La Belle Assemblée Jan. 26/2 Doctor Atterboom desired the poet to deliver us a sonetto on Scipio.
1882 W. Fiske Catal. Petrarch Bks. 29/1 The volume contains only the sonetti and canzoni with the commentary of Filelfo.
1921 Mod. Lang. Rev. 16 277 The De Vulgari Eloquentia, which was certainly written after Dante's exile, admits no art forms in Italian verse except the Canzone, the Ballata, and the Sonetto.
2004 Annali d'Italianistica 22 27 It is the generic status of the sonetto rather than its particular form that distinguishes it most sharply from its Occitan precedents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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