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 | | The inventor of the sestina, Arnaut Daniel, belonged to a group of twelfth-century poets--the troubadours--who needed, for their fame and fortune, to shock, delight, and entertain. |
 | | Following these was a stanza of three lines, in which the six key words were repeated in the middle and at the end of the lines, summarizing the poem or dedicating it to some person. |
 | | The sestina was invented by the Provençal troubadour Arnaut Daniel and was used in Italy by Dante and Petrarch, after which it fell into disuse until revived by the 16th-century French Pléiade, particularly Pontus de Tyard. |
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