A medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy) The poets Petrarch and Dante Alighieri were masters of the canzone
{i} (Music) type of song that was used in the period from the 16th to the early 18th-centuries which is similar to a madrigal (also canzona)
A medieval Italian or Provençal lyric poem of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding short stanza or envoi Sidelight: Milton's pastoral elegy, Lycidas, is an example in English poetry of a canzone-like structure (Compare Ghazal, Melic Verse, Ode, Romance, Society Verse)
hendecasyllabic lines in stanza form William Drummond of Hawthornden adapted the canzone to English
A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal