of his works appeared from Rome in 1502, to be followed by some twenty more in the next ten years alone. Ultimately they ran into many more during the time his reputation was high. Of the 391 poems ascribed to him, 261 are strambotti and 97 are sonnets. A collection of commendatory sonnets and other verses dedicated to Serafino was published in 1504. In the same year, Calmeta’s biography of him was published from Bologna and, along with some of the commendatory verses, introduced various collections of his poetry over the years. He and those with whom he associated had been drawn to Petrarch as a model and had cultivated in particular his use of the conceit, sometimes to an extravagant degree. The style was deprecated by Pietro Bembo and taste for it had waned by 1560, never really to revive. Serafino’s work was used as a model in various ways by 16th-century French and English writers. His sonnet Si questo miser corpo t’abandona (if this unhappy body leaves you) was adapted into the rondeau S’il est ainsi que ce corps t’abandonne (if it happens that this body leaves you) by Jean Marot. A little later Thomas Wyatt adapted the Marot rondeau into English as “If it be so that I forsake thee”. But Wyatt was also to translate or adapt Serafino’s work directly, being especially drawn to his use of the epigramatic strambotto, a form he introduced into English verse. For the extravagant image of the breaking heart being like an exploding cannon, he is only indebted to Serafino for the idea in his “The furious gonne in his rajing yre”. In “Thou slepest ffast” two strambotti are adapted to make a single epigram, while other poems are a little more closely translated. Serafino and fellow Petrarchans have also been claimed as an influence on the French poet Maurice Scève, and in England twelve later sonnets by Thomas Watson have been identified as versions of Serafino’s. References Aquila, Serafino dell' Aquila, Serafino dell' Aquila, Serafino dell' Aquila, Serafino dell' Aquila, Serafino dell'