- plural of canzona.
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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Etymology
Origin of canzone
1580–90; < Italian < Latin cantiōnem, accusative singular of cantiō song; see canto, -ion
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The portion before the canzone is in terza rima; that after it, like the prologue, in octaves.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
It consists, in the form in which it has come down to us, of an Convito. introduction and three treatises, each forming an elaborate commentary in a long canzone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
The first of these deals with the language, the second with the style and with the composition of the canzone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
In England the canzone was introduced at the end of the sixteenth century by William Drummond of Hawthornden, who has left some very beautiful examples.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
A wonderful canzone by Guinicelli contains the following verses: A song she seems among the rest and these Have all their beauties in her splendour drowned.
From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie
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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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 Macmillan, Hugh
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 Greene, Nathaniel
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 Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)
Of a surety, will spring of this union a numerous progeny of canzones, sonnets and ballades.
From The Well of Saint Clare by Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)
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 Ogg, Frederic Austin
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 Symonds, John Addington
Their sonnets and canzoni contributed much to the revival of a purer style, although their elegance is often too elaborate and their thoughts and feelings too artificial.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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