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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.
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.).
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!)
The thirty-third canto