cantos
- plural of canto.
Example Sentences
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Sereni, who recited cantos from Dante in Italian to calm his nerves, was offered a British alias for the parachuting mission.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Michael, the default English department heartthrob who satisfies his artistic longings by publishing book-long cantos, isn’t fated for such greatness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
It is a revelatory journey but an arduous one, spanning 100 cantos and nearly 15,000 lines replete with references to the Florentine political scene, Christian theology and the world of antiquity.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021
The show convenes a suite of drawings employing that technique, made between 1958 and 1960: putative illustrations of the thirty-four cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017
He’d heard about witches who had things they called books of cantos and wizards with books of spells, but nothing about enchanted books.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
