The early Italian poetry written in classical metres has been collected by Carducci, La Poesia Barbara nei Secoli XV e XVI, Bologna, 1881.
But the remarkable collection of Claudio Tolomei, Versi e Regole de la Nuova Poesia Toscana, published at Rome in 1539, marked an epoch in sixteenth-century letters.
Varnhagen, in his Introduction to the Florilegio da Poesia Brazileira (Vol.
See his Cantos Populares do Brasil, Contos Populares do Brasil, Estudos sobre a Poesia Popular Brasileira.
The proofs adduced by D'Ancona in his Poesia popolare, pp.
The first edition was published in Milan in 1521 with an Apologia contro ai detrattori della poesia del Boccaccio by Girolamo Claricio of Imola.
Other poets (among them Chiabrera) had written Poesia Barbara before him, and his contemporary Cavallotti has tried it too; but they have produced Poesia Barbara of a different kind.
An interesting article on Peter Fullone may be found in Pitrè, Studi di Poesia popolare, p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poesia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
