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canto (s) (noun), cantos (pl)
1. A section out of several into which a long poem may be divided or one of the principal divisions of a long poem.
2. Etymology: from 1590, from Latin cantus, "song".

As "a section of a long poem" was used in Italian by Dante and in English first by Spenser.

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