canzone

[ kan-zoh-nee; Italian kahn-tsaw-ne ]

noun

, plural can·zo·nes, can·zo·ni [kan-, zoh, -nee, kahn-, tsaw, -nee]

1. a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
2. 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.

canzone

/ kænˈzəʊnɪ /

noun

1. a Provençal or Italian lyric, often in praise of love or beauty
2. 1. a song, usually of a lyrical nature
   2. (in 16th-century choral music) a polyphonic song from which the madrigal developed

Word History and Origins

Origin of canzone¹

1580–90; < Italian < Latin cantiōnem, accusative singular of cantiō song; canto, -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of canzone¹

C16: from Italian: song, from Latin cantiō, from canere to sing

Example Sentences

En Arnaut often ends a canzone with a verset in different tone from the rest, as markedly in "Si fos Amors."

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Guinizzelli has the following passage, in a canzone quoted by Ginguen, Hist.

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One stanza of this Canzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime.

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And not believing that I could relate this in the brevity of a sonnet, I began then a canzone.

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Well now really, Canonico, for one not exactly one of us, that canzone of Ser Giovanni has merit; has not it?

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