tornata

Updated: June 3, 2025

And in order that this part may be understood more fully, I say that generally in each Song there is what is called a Tornata, because the Reciters, who originally were accustomed to compose it, so contrived that when the song was sung, with a certain part of the song they could return to it.

Dante Alighieri - The Banquet (Il Convito)