- plural of canzona.
canzone
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canzones,
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canzoni
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a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
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a poem in which each word that appears at the end of a line of the first stanza appears again at the end of one of the lines in each of the following stanzas.
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a Provençal or Italian lyric, often in praise of love or beauty
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a song, usually of a lyrical nature
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(in 16th-century choral music) a polyphonic song from which the madrigal developed
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Etymology
Origin of canzone
1580–90; < Italian < Latin cantiōnem, accusative singular of cantiō song; see canto, -ion
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Like the Italian canzone, these little lyrics, brief as a summer breeze, which momentarily sways the stalks of grass, must be heard with the ear of the heart.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
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
So, too, the "Old German rhymed verse" after the manner of Hans Sachs, enjoyed a short popularity; and one saw virtuosos playing with the canzone or the makame.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
Once more, it is the thought of Simonetta which pervades the landscape of the third canzone I have mentioned.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
The same poet in his canzone, Al Cor Gentil says: "She shines on us as God shines on His angels."
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
Devoured by the noble longing of discovery, he would set out in canzones the doctrines of the old-world Sages concerning Love which is the path to Virtue.
From The Well of Saint Clare by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
On the strength of this suspicion his papers were seized, and all the sonnets, madrigals, and canzones that were supposed to give countenance to it, confiscated.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
How has not all Rome admired you when you sang the canzones I wrote for you, thereby procuring you honor and respectability, and making you a popular man from a low beggar?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
Of a surety, will spring of this union a numerous progeny of canzones, sonnets and ballades.
From The Well of Saint Clare by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
The incomparable Garcilaso de la Vega, then scarcely past his majority, warmly supported the innovation of his beloved friend, and soon far surpassed Boscan himself as a writer of sonnets and canzones.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The canzoni of Petrarch are composed in stanzas of varying, but in each case uniform, length, and every stanza corresponds precisely in metrical arrangement with every other stanza in the same canzone.
From Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons
The canzoni, the sestine, all the lyric metres of Italy and Spain were borrowed from his treasury.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
Goldoni went up to the circle and listened to a number of gentlemen who recited poems, canzoni, ballads, sonnets, etc.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
The canzoni upon which the commentary is written were probably composed between 1292 and 1300, when he was seeking in philosophy consolation for the loss of Beatrice.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
From that discord he wrought the harmonies of his sonnets and canzoni.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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