There are 89 sonnets in Spenser's Amoretti sequence - and they are all Shakespearean (not Petrarchan).
The only typically Petrarchan element of the Amoretti is the idealised love-interest - which Petrarch himself inherited from the Troubadour tradition.
Spenser does not make any notable innovation to the concepts of ideal love (Shakespeare would do so, by playing with whether a real of an idealised love was being addressed).
Perhaps you need to rephrase this question.
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