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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 Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)

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

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)

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