ballata
noun
a 14th-century Italian verse form composed of stanzas beginning and ending with a refrain, often set to music and accompanied by dancing.
ballate
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pluralof ballata.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He found nothing' easier than to throw aside his professor's mantle and to improvise ballate for women to chant as they danced their rounds upon the Piazza di S. Trinità.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
Besides the smaller poems contained in the Vita Nuova and Convito there are a considerable number of canzoni, ballate and sonnetti bearing the poet’s name.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
Though unequal in quality, his sonnets and ballate, whether separately published or scattered through his numerous prose works, have a higher merit.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
There is hardly a sonnet, there are certainly neither ballate, canzoni, nor capitoli which do not contain some reference to Monna Selvaggia's fine eyes, and always to the same tune.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
