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The Cambridge history of Italian literature /

Contributor(s): Brand, Peter | Pertile, Lino.
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xxi, 701 p. : map ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521434920 (hc); 9780521434928 :.Subject(s): Italian literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 850
Partial contents:
Origins and duecento / Jonathan Usher: Poetry. Prose -- Trecento: Dante / Lino Pertile. Boccaccio / Pamela D. Stewart. Petrarch / John Took. Minor writers / Steven Botterill -- Quattrocento / Letizia Panizza: Humanism. Power, patronage and literary associations. Literature in the vernacular -- Cinquecento: Prose / Brian Richardson. Narrative poetry / Peter Marinelli. Lyric poetry / Anthony Oldcorn. Theatre / Richard Andrews -- Seicento : poetry, philosophy and science / Paolo Cherchi: Baroque. Lyric poetry. Mock-epic poetry and satire. Treatises -- Narrative prose and theatre / Albert N. Mancini : Narrative prose. Theatre. Opera -- Settecento / Franco Fido: First half of the settecento. Theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni. Opera / David Kimbell. Enlightenment and Parini. Alfieri and pre-romanticism -- Age of romanticism (1800-1870) / Giovanni Carsaniga : Romantic controversy. Monti. Foscolo. Leopardi. Manzoni and the novel. Other novelists and poets of the risorgimento. Opera since 1800 / David Kimbell -- Literature of united Italy (1870-1910): Writer and society in the new Italy / Robert Dombroski. Pirandello / Felicity Firth -- Rise and fall of fascism / Robert Dombroski : Poetry and the avant-garde. Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci. Novel -- Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56) / John Gatt-Rutter: After the liberation. Neo-realism. History and the poets -- Contemporary Italy (since 1956) / Michael Caesar: Late 1950s and the 1960s. 1970s. 1980s.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

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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