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South of the Piazza Municipio, the Via San Carlo curves round to the 19th-century steel-and-glass shopping arcade of Galleria Umberto I, opposite the great Neoclassical temple of Neapolitan bel canto, the Teatro San Carlo opera house.
College freshman still read with flendish glee the first line in Canto I of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (and never mind the title!)
Under James Levine, the Met has barely dabbled in bel canto, the finespun singer vehicles of the early 19 th century, favoring instead the titans of opera.
In the north, where song was subject to Arabian and Persian influences, it varies from dhrupad, meaning austere and without embellishment, to the more florid khyal, India’s version of bel canto, or thumri, the style of light-hearted, tender love songs.
--Dante Alighieri, The Inferno (Canto XX, Circle Eight--The Fortune Tellers and Diviners), early 14 th century