volta

Noun

1. A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
2. A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.

   Synonyms: levalto volte

3. A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
   • […][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum...