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Canto. Detail of a 14th-century manuscript of Dante Alighieri's Commedia, a three-part poem ( Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) that was divided into 100 cantos. The canto ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈkanto]) is a principal form of division in medieval and modern long poetry. [1]
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Canto Definition. A canto (CAN-toe) is the major unit of division in epics or other long narrative poems. Similar in function to a stanza, a canto helps divide a lengthy poem into discrete units, demarcating sections and enabling a coherent story to unfold. While early epic poems—such as Beowulf, Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, and ...
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duan. canto, major division of an epic or other long narrative poem. An Italian term, derived from the Latin cantus (“song”), it probably originally indicated a portion of a poem that could be sung or chanted by a minstrel at one sitting. Though early oral epics, such as Homer’s, are divided into discrete sections, the name canto was ...
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Canto is a unit of division or subsection found in epics or long narrative poetry. History of the Canto. The word “canto” comes from the Latin word cantus, meaning “song; bird-song;” and by the 16th century, “canto” was used to define a section of a long poem. Cantos were first adopted by Italian poets such as Dante Alighieri ...
