canzona
Americannoun
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canzone
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of canzona
C19: from Italian, from Latin cantiō song, from canere to sing
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I at once announced my return to Cornelius by sending him a small Venetian gondola, which I had bought for him in Venice, and to which I added a canzona written with nonsensical Italian words.
From My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner
Calvacoressi, on dominant relationship, 52. canon, 11; account of, 36-37. canzona, 69.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
He sang stanzas glorifying the bride and her husband, and the muses responded with a canzona in nine parts.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
Another time the queen of the day, Emilia, invites Dioneo to sing a canzona.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
He also made a translation of the first canzone of the "Convito."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Ser Giovanni! with permission; your mention of eggs in the canzone has induced me to fancy I could eat a pair of them.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
When Mary approached the piano, and addressed a few kind words to Master Christian, many Italian gentlemen begged her to favor them with a canzone.
From The Amulet by Hendrik Conscience
But the most remarkable of all Monti's conjugal effusions, is a canzone written a short time before his death, and when he was more than seventy years of age.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Who fills empty canzone with his passion— But never her ears!
From A Night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice
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