Giacomo da Lentini (also known as Jacopo Da Lentini) was an Italian poet. He was a senior poet of the Sicilian school and was a notary at the court of the Holy Roman empror Frederick II. Giacomo is credited with the invention of the sonnet. Sicilian (Lu Sicilianu, Lingua Siciliana) is the Romance language spoken in Sicily, Italy. ... The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (German: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation ▶ (help· info), Latin Sacrum Romanum Imperium Nationis Germanicae, see names and designations of the empire) was a political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. ... See: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194-1250, king 1211/12-1250, emperor since 1220) Frederick II of Austria (?-1246, duke of Austria 1230-1246) Frederick II of Sicily (1272-1337) - who called himself Frederick III - see the article for details. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers The term sonnet is derived from the Provençal word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning little song. ...
Headed by GiacomodaLentini, they produced more than three-hundred poems of courtly love between 1230 and 1266, the experiment being continued after Frederick's death by his son, Manfredi.
These poets drew their inspiration from the troubadour poetry of Southern France, which applied the feudal code of honor to the relation between a man (acting as the vassal) and a woman (acting as king or superior).
GiacomodaLentini is also credited for inventing the sonnet, a literary form later perfected by Dante and, most of all, Petrarch.
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