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canzone
[ kan-zoh-nee; Italian kahn-tsaw-ne ]
noun
, plural can·zo·nes, can·zo·ni [kan-, zoh, -nee, kahn-, tsaw, -nee]
- a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
- 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.
canzone
/ kænˈzəʊnɪ /
noun
- a Provençal or Italian lyric, often in praise of love or beauty
- a song, usually of a lyrical nature
- (in 16th-century choral music) a polyphonic song from which the madrigal developed
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of canzone1
C16: from Italian: song, from Latin cantiō, from canere to sing
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Example Sentences
En Arnaut often ends a canzone with a verset in different tone from the rest, as markedly in "Si fos Amors."
From Project Gutenberg
Guinizzelli has the following passage, in a canzone quoted by Ginguen, Hist.
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One stanza of this Canzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime.
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And not believing that I could relate this in the brevity of a sonnet, I began then a canzone.
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Well now really, Canonico, for one not exactly one of us, that canzone of Ser Giovanni has merit; has not it?
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