- 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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In the third canzone Dante speaks of the impossibility of comprehending what gave him a glimpse of the nature of his mistress.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
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
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
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
Who fills empty canzone with his passion— But never her ears!
From A Night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice
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
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
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
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
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
Besides the smaller poems contained in the Vita Nuova and Convito there are a considerable number of canzoni, ballate and sonnetti bearing the poet’s name.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
There is hardly a sonnet, there are certainly neither ballate, canzoni, nor capitoli which do not contain some reference to Monna Selvaggia's fine eyes, and always to the same tune.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
He was the author of the Leandro, a poem in blank verse, of canzoni, and sonnets after the model of Petrarch, and of The Allegory.—History of Spanish Literature, by George Ticknor, 1888, i.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
It is essentially a prose commentary upon three canzoni written for the honor and glory of the "noble, beautiful, and most compassionate lady, Philosophy."
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
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
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