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Example sentences for: canto

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

The thirty-third canto
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.
--Dante Alighieri, The Inferno (Canto XX, Circle Eight--The Fortune Tellers and Diviners), early 14 th century
College freshman still read with flendish glee the first line in Canto I of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (and never mind the title!)
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.