Example sentences for: canto

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

  • In those seven lines, freighted with the layered voice of European culture, Dante's vision of paradise is invoked both explicitly, in the "concentric radiance" of the last canto of his Paradiso , and implicitly, in his braided terza rima (three-line stanzas, rhyming--loosely here--aba, bcb, etc.).

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

  • The thirty-third canto

  • 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.

  • 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.


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