The bulk of these should be seen in the context of the idea of the model character of "ancient' poetry, which in turn resulted in the manneristic approach of the "modern" poets in whose works the constraint of the model tradition was conterbalanced by a sustained effort to build concetti on the basis of the inherited pool of ma Zink The term tango apparently continued to be used as a means to describe any situation in which a later poet takes something over from a predecessor, but in this new context it soon outlived its usefulness, because quite obviously taking from one's predecessors was part and parcel of the poet's activity