Cleric went through
canto after
canto of the `Commedia,' repeating the discourse between Dante and his `sweet teacher,' while his cigarette burned itself out unheeded between his long fingers.
For a single illustration, the description of the House of Alma in Book II, Canto Nine, is a tediously literal medieval allegory of the Soul and Body; and occasional realistic details here and there in the poem at large are merely repellent to more modern taste.
That the reader may never be in danger of forgetting his moral aim, Spenser fills the poem with moral observations, frequently setting them as guides at the beginning of the cantos.
Each Book consists of twelve cantos (of from forty to ninety stanzas each) and oftentimes Spenser has difficulty in filling out the scheme.
If Paul memorized one
canto of "Marmion," Lloyd memorized two
cantos, Paul came back with three, and Lloyd again with four, till each knew the whole poem by heart.
The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle
canto from MARMION--which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart--and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.
At first sight such a work seems to be a miscellany of myths, technical advice, moral precepts, and folklore maxims without any unifying principle; and critics have readily taken the view that the whole is a
canto of fragments or short poems worked up by a redactor.
"You hear -- Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti -- a man who ranks amongst the most ancient nobility of Italy, whose name Dante has celebrated in the tenth
canto of `The Inferno,' you remember it, do you not?
I will read you the first
canto. It has four hundred lines, and lasts a minute."
The Sinfonietta Bel
Canto's Summer Concert Series will continue with "POPera!" at 7:30 p.m.
David Cox, Head of Regulatory Affairs for Cable & Wireless Communications ("C&W"), is the new Chairman of
CANTO, one of the Caribbean organizations in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) / Telecommunications industry, the company said.