As variantes do soneto na literatura portuguesa do século XVI. Soneto sem pernas e soneto com glosa

Abstract

This article launches a new perspective on the cultivation of sonnet variants in 16th century Portuguese literature. It resorts to the method of literary history and is based on metric studies. The origin, development and dissemination of this metric form from Italy, as well as the Iberian framework of its diffusion are taken into account. References that extend to contemporary Portuguese literature are included as well. Hence the correlation, in 16th century Portuguese literature, between the very low impact of the sonnet variants, the sonnet sem pernas, and the sonnet with gloss.