A decisive moment in the formation of modern literary culture is that signaled by the transition from a predominantly oral poetry to a predominantly written poetry. The form of the sonnet, which emerged in thirteenth century Italy, plays a crucial role in this passage - and not by accident it is based on this form that Dante Alighieri proposes a new conception of lyric, distinguished by an intellectual seriousness that troubadourship did not know.
voice; writing; poetry; lyric; sonnet