canzone

Examples

• All

• The lack of an envoi, whose normal function is to frame the canzone and dispatch it to the world, is significant.

  Academic text (2003)

• An envoi would require a shift (in voice) to another level in a canzone that is already multivoiced.

  Academic text (2003)

• The commentary on the canzone is divided between those who find no coherent sense in the work and those who do.

  Academic text (2003)

• The affirmation of faith suggests a resolution to the canzone.

  Academic text (2003)

• If the riddles and proverbs of the canzone-frottola are confusing, they connect at a deeper, more parabolic level.

  Academic text (2003)

• Here again, the canzone represents a limit and not a deviation; it is strange and ambiguous, but intimately tied to the usages, forms, and motives of the other poems and to that single "fixed rule" of the Canzoniere, pleasing variability.

  Academic text (2003)

• In Italian literature, a canzone often showcases elaborate rhyme schemes and intricate melodies.

• During the class, we analyzed the famous canzone that celebrates nature and beauty.

Synonyms

C

canzona

vscanzone

• Archaic

9.9

A lyrical Italian song or poem from medieval to early modern times

emphasizes formal structure rather than belonging to a specific historical period

Surface Forms

Etymology