 He was an undisguised follower of Petrarch, carrying the imitation to such a point that he addressed his "Cants d'amor" (love songs) to a lady whom he professed to have seen first in church on Good Friday.So far as the difference of language allows, he reproduced the rhythmical cadences of his model, but this should be qualified as the medieval tradition of "locus communis" requested this following.This is something Petrarch himself did and it need not to be stressed.