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This book summarises the history of Italian literature from its inception to the early twentieth century and analyses it in the context of other contemporary European literature as well as the literature of antiquity.

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Preface; The Beginnings of Italian Literature; The Early Italian Lyric; Dantes Life and Minor Writings; The Divine Comedy; Petrarch as Man of Letters; Petrarch and Laura; Boccaccio; The Fifteenth Century; The Poetical Renaissance of the Fifteenth Century; Chivalric Poetry; Ariosto and his Imitators; Machiavelli and Guicciardini; Other Prose-Writers of the Sixteenth Century; The Petrarchists; Humorous Poetry -- The Mock-Heroic; The Novel; The Drama; Tasso; The Prose of the Seventeenth Century; The Poetry of the Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Comedy of Masks -- The Opera -- Drama of the Eighteenth Century; The Revival; The Regeneration; The Nineteenth Century -- Middle Period; Contemporary Italian Literature; Bibliographical Note; Index.

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      Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/04/2021
      ISBN13: 9781536194234, 978-1536194234
      ISBN10: 1536194239
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book summarises the history of Italian literature from its inception to the early twentieth century and analyses it in the context of other contemporary European literature as well as the literature of antiquity.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; The Beginnings of Italian Literature; The Early Italian Lyric; Dantes Life and Minor Writings; The Divine Comedy; Petrarch as Man of Letters; Petrarch and Laura; Boccaccio; The Fifteenth Century; The Poetical Renaissance of the Fifteenth Century; Chivalric Poetry; Ariosto and his Imitators; Machiavelli and Guicciardini; Other Prose-Writers of the Sixteenth Century; The Petrarchists; Humorous Poetry -- The Mock-Heroic; The Novel; The Drama; Tasso; The Prose of the Seventeenth Century; The Poetry of the Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Comedy of Masks -- The Opera -- Drama of the Eighteenth Century; The Revival; The Regeneration; The Nineteenth Century -- Middle Period; Contemporary Italian Literature; Bibliographical Note; Index.

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