canzone
poetry
Also known as: canzoni
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contribution by Cavalcanti
- In Guido Cavalcanti
Two of Cavalcanti’s poems are canzoni, a type of lyric derived from Provençal poetry, of which the most famous is “Donna mi prega” (“A Lady Asks Me”), a beautiful and complex philosophical analysis of love, the subject of many later commentaries. Others are sonnets and ballate (ballads), the latter type…
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role of Drummond
- In William Drummond
…the first to use the canzone, a medieval Italian or Provençal metrical form, in English verse.
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