Example sentences for: canto

How can you use “canto” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • College freshman still read with flendish glee the first line in Canto I of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (and never mind the title!)

  • --Dante Alighieri, The Inferno (Canto XX, Circle Eight--The Fortune Tellers and Diviners), early 14 th century

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The thirty-third canto


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