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Terza rima   Listen
noun
Terza rima  n.  A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... occupation, or to an excessive facility in stringing verses together. In Italy, at all events, it was rather due to an abundant sense of style, as is further proved by the mass of contemporary reports, histories, and even pamphlets, in the 'terza rima.' Just as Niccolo da Uzzano published his scheme for a new constitution, Machiavelli his view of the history of his own time, a third, the life of Savonarola, and a fourth the siege of Piombino by Alfonso the Great, in ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt

... movement of Poliziano's poem is intrusted to the traditional octave stanza, but we find passages of terza rima. There are also choral passages which suggest the existence of the frottola, the carnival song and the ballata. The play is introduced by Mercury acting as prologue. This was in accordance with time ...
— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson



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