Petrarchan 的詞源

"彼特拉克詩歌的，與彼特拉克的詩歌有關的，或具有彼特拉克詩歌特色的"，1827年（基茨在1818年使用 Petrarchal），源自詩人弗朗切斯科· Petrarch（意大利語 Petrarca）（1304-1374）。

"Petrarchian," not "Petrarchan," as some have it. To begin with, Milton, who is something of an authority, writes "Petrarchian." In the second place, if people want to write English, "Petrarch" is the poet's name, and "Petrarchian" is, according to all analogy, its adjective, In the third, if they want to write Italian, his name is "Petrarca," without any h, and its adjective is "Petrarcan." [George Saintsbury, "History of English Prosody," 1906] 

"Petrarchian"，而不是"Petrarchan"，有些人這樣說。首先，米爾頓是某種權威，他寫了"Petrarchian"。其次，如果人們想寫英語，"Petrarch"是詩人的名字，"Petrarchian"是它的形容詞，根據所有類比。第三，如果他們想寫意大利語，他的名字是"Petrar c a"，沒有任何 h，它的形容詞是"Petrarcan"。[喬治·聖茨伯裏，《英語韻律史》，1906年]