Canto

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The canto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkanto]) is a principal form of division in medieval and modern long poetry.[1]

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Detail of a 14th-century manuscript of Dante Alighieri's Commedia, a three-part poem (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) that was divided into 100 cantos.