A "Second Book of Songs or Airs" was published in 1600, when the composer was at the Danish Court, serving as lutenist to King Christian the Fourth.
"Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age"
Various
So it was in Petrarch's, who was a lutenist, and who "tried" his verses, to see how they would go to the instrument.
"Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2"
Leigh Hunt