canzone
Americannoun
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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.
noun
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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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Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of canzone
1580–90; < Italian < Latin cantiōnem, accusative singular of cantiō song; see canto, -ion
Example Sentences
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From this canzone and some lines scattered through his sonnets, I shall sketch the person and character of Beatrice.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
See the canzone to Ginevra, quoted by Baruffaldi.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Poems, fantasies, visions, romances, tales—this stock was daily increased with all sorts of extravagant sonnets, stanzas, and canzone, and he read all to Olympia for hours in succession without fatigue.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
"Una canzone bella-bella—molto bella—" She pronounced her syllables one by one, calling into the night.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
But that constrained and laborious measure cannot equal the graceful flow of the canzone, or the vigorous compression of the terza rima.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
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