Abstract
The sonnet as a stable lyrical poetic form of 14 lines with a certain rhyme order originated in Italy in the 13th century. It became one of the favorite forms of lyric poetry of the great Italian poets of the Renaissance, and under the pen of Dante and especially Petrarch, it acquired the flexibility that is necessary for a short poem, which often contains a very important philosophical and epic content; some time later, the sonnet received a pan-European distribution, mainly due to the work of the followers of Petrarch.