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The Cambridge history of Italian literature /

The Cambridge history of Italian literature / - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. - xxi, 701 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-673) and index.

Origins and duecento / Poetry. Prose -- Trecento: Dante / Boccaccio / Petrarch / Minor writers / Quattrocento / Humanism. Power, patronage and literary associations. Literature in the vernacular -- Cinquecento: Prose / Narrative poetry / Lyric poetry / Theatre / Seicento : poetry, philosophy and science / Baroque. Lyric poetry. Mock-epic poetry and satire. Treatises -- Narrative prose and theatre / Narrative prose. Theatre. Opera -- Settecento / First half of the settecento. Theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni. Opera / Enlightenment and Parini. Alfieri and pre-romanticism -- Age of romanticism (1800-1870) / Romantic controversy. Monti. Foscolo. Leopardi. Manzoni and the novel. Other novelists and poets of the risorgimento. Opera since 1800 / Literature of united Italy (1870-1910): Writer and society in the new Italy / Pirandello / Rise and fall of fascism / Poetry and the avant-garde. Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci. Novel -- Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56) / After the liberation. Neo-realism. History and the poets -- Contemporary Italy (since 1956) / Late 1950s and the 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. Jonathan Usher: Lino Pertile. Pamela D. Stewart. John Took. Steven Botterill -- Letizia Panizza: Brian Richardson. Peter Marinelli. Anthony Oldcorn. Richard Andrews -- Paolo Cherchi: Albert N. Mancini : Franco Fido: David Kimbell. Giovanni Carsaniga : David Kimbell -- Robert Dombroski. Felicity Firth -- Robert Dombroski : John Gatt-Rutter: Michael Caesar:

Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the 13th century. This provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing from its earliest origins up to the present day.

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Italian literature--History and criticism.

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