Italian or Provençal song or ballad.
1 A wonderful canzone by Guinicelli contains the following verses:
2 Some one mentioned a Tuscan popular canzone .
3 They are restricted to two forms: the sonnet, borrowed from the Sicilians, and the canzone , from the Provençals.
4 They are written in two forms, the canzone taken from the Provencals, and the sonnet, taken from the Sicilians.
5 And not believing that I could relate this in the brevity of a sonnet, I began then a canzone .
6 Dante cites the first verse of this Canzone , Paradiso, VIII.
7 Dante himself prized this Canzone , and represents Buonagiunta da Lucca in Purgatory as addressing him,-
8 See the Canzone translated by me, forming Appendix I.
9 Of a surety, will spring of this union a numerous progeny of canzones , sonnets and ballades.
10 See the Canzone translated in Appendix I.
11 [Footnote C: Compare with this passage Canzone x, st. 5, 6.
12 [Footnote M: This Canzone is one of the most beautiful of Dante's minor poems.
13 They reached the Canzone del Mare just in time for lunch, and Sarah looked everywhere for her daughter, but she couldn't find her.
14 And he stuck his hands in his pockets and went away round the corner of the cottage, whistling the tune of the " Canzone di Marechiaro."
15 ( Canzone : "Voi che sapete.")
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