This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of a wide range of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition from its earliest origins to the present day. The volume is accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars. Translations are provided, along with maps, chronological charts, and up-to-date bibliographies.
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This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of a wide range of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition from its earliest origins to the present day. The volume is accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars: translations are provided, along with maps, chronological charts, and up-to-date bibliographies.
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I have not completed this book yet, as I find myself stopping to investigate a particular author I didn't know much about, i.e., Tasso, Boccaccio, Leopardi, and then doing in-depth research to go along with the details of this book. It is really a wonderful introduction to Italian Literature. I majored in English Literature; therefore, writers like Dante and Petrarch were familiar to me, but still there was so much I wanted to know. This book gives me the chance to learn more and has a wonderful bibliography in order to know where to look for more. If you want to learn about Italian Literature, begin here and I think your experience will be worthwhile.
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What is striking about this summary is that both French and Provencal have well-defined traditions behind them: the examples Dante cites go back generations (Peire d'Alvernhe wrote between 1150 and 1180; Chretien de Troyes and Thomas, authors of the most important French romances, were writing around 1170). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poesia aulica, poesia giocosa, pastor fado, rime petrose, vulgarium fragmenta, teatro italiano, questione della lingua, della volgar lingua, dolce stil novo, sacra rappresentazione, letteratura italiana, promessi sposi, del settecento, vita solitaria, del dolore, improvised comedy, del cinquecento, regular comedy, pastoral drama, nel seicento, vulgari eloquentia, della casa, vernacular prose, pastor fido Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vita Nuova, Middle Ages, Torquato Tasso, Second World War, Pietro Aretino, Roman Empire, Sack of Rome, Bernardo Tasso, Guido Cavalcanti, Italian Renaissance, Luigi Pulci, Communist Party, Lorenzo Valla, Council of Trent, Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Croce, Della Valle, Don Camillo, Italian Romanticism, Italian Trecento, Jacopo Ortis, Mastro-don Gesualdo, New Testament, Pietro Bembo, Pietro Verri New!
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What is striking about this summary is that both French and Provencal have well-defined traditions behind them: the examples Dante cites go back generations (Peire d'Alvernhe wrote between 1150 and 1180; Chretien de Troyes and Thomas, authors of the most important French romances, were writing around 1170). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
poesia aulica, poesia giocosa, pastor fado, rime petrose, vulgarium fragmenta, teatro italiano, questione della lingua, della volgar lingua, dolce stil novo, sacra rappresentazione, letteratura italiana, promessi sposi, del settecento, vita solitaria, del dolore, improvised comedy, del cinquecento, regular comedy, pastoral drama, nel seicento, vulgari eloquentia, della casa, vernacular prose, pastor fido Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vita Nuova, Middle Ages, Torquato Tasso, Second World War, Pietro Aretino, Roman Empire, Sack of Rome, Bernardo Tasso, Guido Cavalcanti, Italian Renaissance, Luigi Pulci, Communist Party, Lorenzo Valla, Council of Trent, Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Croce, Della Valle, Don Camillo, Italian Romanticism, Italian Trecento, Jacopo Ortis, Mastro-don Gesualdo, New Testament, Pietro Bembo, Pietro Verri New!
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- Orlando Furioso: A Romantic Epic: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1) by Ludovico Ariosto in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Selected Poems by Jenny Joseph in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Moon and the Bonfires (New York Review Books Classics) by Cesare Pavese on page 535, and Back Matter
- Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino on page 552, and Back Matter
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- Culture and Customs of Italy (Culture and Customs of Europe) by Charles Killinger on 9 pages
- A History of Women's Writing in Italy by Letizia Panizza in Front Matter, page 36, and Back Matter
- The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (Toronto Italian Studies) by Patrizia Bettella in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy by Pamela Joseph Benson on page 195, and page 196
- The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Lucrezia Marinella in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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