Definitions for canzone

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canzone can·zo·ne

Spelling: [kan-zoh-nee; Italian kahn-tsaw-ne]

IPA: /kænˈzoʊ ni; Italian kɑnˈtsɔ nɛ/

Canzone is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in canzone (acennoz).

Definitions for canzone

noun

1. a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
2. 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.
3. canzone.

Origin of canzone

1580-90; Italian Latin cantiōnem, accusative singular of cantiō song; see canto, -ion

Examples for canzone

Ferrari, canzone per andare in maschera per carnesciale, pp. 31-2.

I believe there is no version into English of the 48th canzone.

The first of these deals with the language, the second with the style and with the composition of the canzone.

The portion before the canzone is in terza rima; that after it, like the prologue, in octaves.

Guido Guinicelli, in the canzone which begins, Within the gentle heart Love shelters him.

A canzone of Andrea da Basso traces in detail the corruption of the corpse of a hard-hearted fair one.

Guinizzelli has the following passage, in a canzone quoted by Ginguen, Hist.

One stanza of this canzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime.

Witte refers to Dante's commentary on his own canzone in the Convito iv.

canzone, in which Dante describes the person of Beatrice, Strophe third.