These were written upon the words of an Italian Canzone in thirty octave stanzas, addressed as a prayer to the Virgin.
But one word must be said in honor of Fulvio Testi, the Modenese poet and statesman, who paid for the fame of a Canzone with his head.
And he was a joglar, perhaps for his living, and only composed when he would, and could not to order, as is shown in the story of his remembering the joglar's canzone when he had laid a wager to make one of his own.
En Arnaut often ends a canzone with a verset in different tone from the rest, as markedly in "Si fos Amors.
By far the larger proportion of these confined themselves to the sonnet and the canzone or ode; and the theme is generally love, though they sometimes change it to religion.
The canzone dedicated to the memory of her illustrious husband is worthy of both.
It is a Carnival Song or Canzone a Ballo rewritten in octave stanzas of roseate fluency and seductive softness.
Ballata, or Canzone a Ballo, meaning of the term in Italian, iv.
He wrote canzone in which there were passages slightly resembling the choral hymns of the Reformation; and in his "Capriccio Chromatico" he made a bold use of chromatic harmonies.
In those days, as we have already seen, compositions were written "da cantare e sonare," and a canzone for strings was simply a piece of vocal polyphony played instead of sung.
But the strongest proof that Boccaccio and Cino were friends is furnished by VOLPI, Una Canzone di Cino da Pistoia nel "Filostrato" del Boccaccio in Bull.
Tyrwhitt notes that Dante uses latino in the sense of language; 'E cantine gli augelli Ciascuno in suo latino'; Canzone 1.
Marsh notes that similar sentiments occur in the Canzone prefixed to the fourth Trattato in Dante's Convito.
But his free-thinking and plain speaking had got him many enemies; he had attacked the Commedia of Dante, and the Canzone d'Amore of Guido Cavalcanti; and his fate was sealed.
Not long after his imprisonment, Tasso appealed to the mercy of Alfonso, in a canzone of great beauty, .
Compare the following lines from the canzone entitled, "La Prima di Tre Sorelle Scritte a Madaroa Leonora d'Este .
Byron was mistaken in attributing these lines, which form part of a Canzone beginning "Io miro i crespi e gli biondi capegli," to Dante.
The Ballata or Canzone a Ballo, as its name implies, was a poem intended to be sung during the dance.
There is a similar woodcut on the title-page of the Canzone a Ballo, Firenze, 1568.
The marvelous instruments of the Italian Sonnet and Canzone were in his hands, and he knew how to draw from them a purer if not a grander melody than either Guido or Dante.
Once more, it is the thought of Simonetta which pervades the landscape of the third canzone I have mentioned.
I refer particularly to that sublime Canzone addressed to the ladies of Florence, and beginning "Donne ch' avete intelletto d' amore.
From this canzone and some lines scattered through his sonnets, I shall sketch the person and character of Beatrice.
One stanza of thisCanzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime.
Part of thisCanzone has been elegantly translated by Mr. Wiffen in his Life of Tasso, p.
The new Signoria was greeted in a canzone by Sacchetti, in which he declares that Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance are once more reinstated in the city.
While closely modelled upon Petrarch's form and similar in motive, this Canzone preserves Poliziano's special qualities of fluency and emptiness of content.
One long poem, which cannot be styled a Rispetto, but is rather a Canzone of the legitimate type, stands out with distinctness from the rest of Poliziano's love-verses.
He established in Spain the Italian iambic, the sonnet, and canzone of Petrarch, the terza rima of Dante, and the flowing octaves of Ariosto.
Poetry, written only in order to be sung, thus assumed a different character; Rinuiccini abandoned the form of the canzone which had hitherto been used in the lyrical part of the drama, and adopted the Pindaric ode.
The Celestial Pilot The Terrestrial Paradise Beatrice To Italy Seven Sonnets and a Canzone I.
There is also a Canzone by Vittoria, full of poetry and feeling, in which she alludes to the loss of that beauty which once she was proud to possess, because it was dear in her husband's sight.
In power and in poetry, this canzone will bear a comparison with many of the more rapturous effusions of his youth.
But the most remarkable of all Monti's conjugal effusions, is a canzone written a short time before his death, and when he was more than seventy years of age.
The poet replied by exclaiming, "Art thou not Oderisi, the glory of Agubbio, the master of the art of illumination?
It stretched as far as the eye could see, and was as lonely as roads across deserts.
The first verse of the first canzone of The New Life.
The first verse of a canzone by Dante; the canzone is the second of those upon which he comments in his Convito.
Landino and Benvenuto da Imola; and for età novella in a similar sense, see Canzone xviii.
But as giving probability to the meaning to which we incline, see Canzone x.
Footnote M: This Canzone is one of the most beautiful of Dante's minor poems.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canzone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
