Book III, dealing with lyric forms, is especially ample as

to _canzone_. The triad of Pindar’s odes he calls _volta_, _rivolta_, _stanza_. His own praises of Charles V consist of five such triads. “As Pindar,” he goes on, “narrates the myths of Tantalus and Pelops, so I told the landing of Aeneas in Africa and Hannibal’s invasion of Italy, with due reference to the Trojan origin of the Romans and of the princely ancestors of Charles” (183-184). After due citation of Dante the book goes on to _sonetto_, _ballata_, and other forms with both quotation and analysis, and even devotes a page to reminder of the Latin hymns.