Canto: - Major division of a long poem or an epic. (মহাকাব্যের একটি ভাগ) - Canto is an Italian word coming from Latin which means song or singing. - From Italian it was borrowed in English to mean a section of a poem. - There are several famous poems that are divided into cantos, including : - Dante's Divine Comedy - Spenser's The Faerie Queene - Byron's Don Juan.
Source: An ABC of English Literature- Dr. M Mofizar Rahman