Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric SequencePost Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from European humanist culture as a poetic discourse that represents personal experience and operates as a