Some of these traditions are metric conventions, which are constitutive for certain genres such as Italian and French canzone. |
A canzone of Andrea da Basso traces in detail the corruption of the corpse of a hard-hearted fair one. |
The first of these deals with the language, the second with the style and with the composition of the canzone. |
Guinizzelli has the following passage, in a canzone quoted by Ginguen, Hist. |
Guido Guinicelli, in the canzone which begins, Within the gentle heart Love shelters him. |
One stanza of this canzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime. |