Canto d’amore
by Angelina Mango & Marco Mengoni
How to study this song
The card for “Canto d’amore” is built from 88 study entries at B1-: 36 Italian words, 4 adjectives and 48 verb forms. Begin with silenzio, paura and attori: get those and most of the lines stop being guesswork. This one leans on its verbs: 48 distinct forms against 4 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level part of the list will already be familiar; the rest is what closes the gap.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| silenzio | silence | silencio | silence | silêncio | stilte | Stille |
Adjectives
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grandi | great / big | grandes | grands | grandes | grote | groß |
This card holds 3 more adjectives. You meet them when you play the song.
Verb forms
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| senti | you hear | oyes | tu entends | ouves | je hoort | du hörst |
What this song teaches you
Level · B1-
- Vocabulary words
- 36
- Adjectives
- 4
- Word combos
- 10
- Expressions
- 8
- Verb forms
- 48
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
Released on 12 June 2026, «Canto d’amore» brought Angelina Mango and Marco Mengoni together for the second time, after «Uguale a me» in 2024. The two wrote it with Jacopo Ettorre, and Giovanni Pallotti and Nicola Lazzarin produced it. It is a song about contrasts — the noise we make so as not to disappear, and the quiet of admitting who we actually are. The singer argues that everybody is performing, that songs and stories are ways of being seen, and that singing about love is simply the sanest option left. The chorus turns that into a request rather than a promise: if the ground shakes, at least you stay steady.
Did you know?
The song opens by asking you to listen to the silence outside — an unusual move for a summer radio single, which normally opens loud. It worked anyway: the track reached number one on Italian radio airplay in the week of 21–27 August 2026, climbing five places to get there. There is a second, quieter joke in the lyric: a verse about scrolling a dating profile to work out what kind of person someone is, right after saying you should never judge a book by its cover.
Charts & streaming
Gold certification from FIMI, awarded in week 37 of 2026. Best position on the Italian singles chart: number 8. Number one on Italian radio airplay in the week of 21–27 August 2026.