The sonnet is a traditional poetic composition, whose name comes from the Italian voice "Sonetto", from Latin sonus, sound. There are two main sources in the sonnets. One of them appeared in Italy in the fourteenth century and the other in Elizabethan England in the sixteenth century. The Italian sonnet is the creator of Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374). This great poet, historian and archaeologist, considered a leading humanist of the Renaissance, wrote 317 sonnets are dedicated to their beloved, Laura de Noves, and included in his songbook. Among the great Italian Renaissance writers who wrote sonnets have Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), renowned for its vast epic poem Jerusalem Delivered. Outside Italy, the Petrarchan sonnet was practiced in Spain by Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536) and John Bosco (1492-1542). Portuguese Luis de Camoes (1524-1580), author of the famous Lusíadas, wrote magnificent sonnets gathered in their rhymes. In France, Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) and Joaquim du Bellay (1522-1560) composed sonnets inspired by Petrarch.
It consists of 14 verses hendecasyllables, divided into two quartets and two triplets, which can have two or three rhymes.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote beautiful sonnets have three quatrains, each with different rhymes, and a couplet. Among the principal authors of sonnets that followed the line of the English Shakespeare include Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) and John Milton (1608-1674), and the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986).