 Petrarch inherited aspects of artifice and rhetorical skill from Sicilian courtly poetry, including that of the inventor of the sonnet form, Giacomo da Lentini.In addition, the troubadours who wrote love poems concerned with chivalry in Provençal (in the canso or canzone form) are likely to have had an influence, primarily because of the position of adoration in which they placed the female figure.Dante, and the school of the "dolce stil nuovo", or new sweet style, developed this placement of the female and proposed that the pursuit of love was a noble virtue.