 It is thought that the English inherited the Italian structure of the sonnet sequence from Dante and Petrarch, and then tailored it to fit their own intentions Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, in which, “while declaring his love for his mistress, he mocks the Petrarchan standard vocabulary of praise”, is an example that marks English independence from the conventions of Petrarch.The English sonnet sequences “exemplify the Renaissance doctrine of creative imitation as defined by Petrarch”.Petrarch wrote and revised his famous sequence "Canzoniere", or "Song Book", between the years of 1327 and 1374.