canzone
noun
a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
canzones
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pluralof canzone.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
