The petrarchist language in the devotional catholic poetry
The use of the petrarchism in the Catholic religious poetry is not a concession to the mundane taste, but a spiritual exercise. The tension created ostensibly by the intersection of languages is part of a theological project: it supports the dynamism of an spiritual initiation and a progressive transformation of human love into the divine love. This project understood like this, it must refer to the structures of the time and the structure of the soul, as well to the transforming union and therapeutic function of literary inculturation.
