At 13 he was a winner of Italian TV talent show Ti Lascio Una Canzone and was targeted by bullies at school in Rome. |
The Canzone and Tarantella were master-classes in revealing the substance beneath Liszt's rhetoric. |
Guinizzelli has the following passage, in a canzone quoted by Ginguen, Hist. |
Canzone has met enough Indians to say namaste when we clamber board. |
The first of these deals with the language, the second with the style and with the composition of the canzone. |
One stanza of this canzone is unequalled, I think, for a simplicity at once tender and sublime. |