Giacomo da Lentini
1200 - 1260
Jacopo da Lentini, also known as Giacomo da Lentini or with the appellative Il Notaro, was a 13th-century Italian poet and inventor. He was a senior poet of the Sicilian School and was a notary at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Jacopo is credited with the invention of the sonnet. His poetry was originally written in literary Sicilian, though it only survives in Tuscan.