Canto

I don't think Bel Canto is a logical choice for film because of the language issues, the oversized cast, and the suffocating location.

A Conversation with Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto 2010

Spenser (London, 1748) discusses the Aeolian Harp, then a new-fangled instrument, in Canto I, lines 352 – 69: XL

Letter 188 2009

In fact, Bel Canto is really a homage to The Magic Mountain.

A Conversation with Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto 2010

Bel Canto is a very engaging book that cannot be put down once one has started reading it.

Reader reviews of Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. 2001

Bel Canto is a virtuoso performance by one of our best and most important writers.

Bel Canto: Summary and book reviews of Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. 2001

Perhaps the most famous example of this occurs in Canto IV of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, during the scene in the Roman Coliseum where Byron addresses "Time, the avenger!"

Romantic Anger and Byron 1998

Neruda's work was transformed into the poetry of political and social preparedness under the banner of redress and visions of the future - not least so in Canto general, partly written while in exile in his own country for no other offence than an opinion.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 - Presentation Speech 1972

The laureate probably refers to lines in Canto VI of the Purgatory.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - Nobel Lecture 1907

Ann Patchett's Bel Canto is a book that I read once and I haven’t been able to read it again because I loved it so much that I am terrified that I will read it again and not like it as much.

Husband on the Home Front 2009

Ann Patchett's Bel Canto is a book that I read once and I haven’t been able to read it again because I loved it so much that I am terrified that I will read it again and not like it as much.

Husband on the Home Front 2009