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The Cambridge history of Italian literature, edited by Peter Brand, Lino Pertile

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The Cambridge history of Italian literature

electronic resource

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edited by Peter Brand, Lino Pertile

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Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing from its earliest origins up to the present day. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition, including Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the Renaissance humanists, Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, pioneers and practitioners of commedia dell'arte and opera, and the contemporary novelists Calvino and Eco. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature sets out to be accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars: translations are provided, along with a map, chronological chart and up-to-date and substantial bibliographies--, Provided by Publisher

Origins and Duecento by Jonathan Usher -- The Trecento -- The Quattrocento by Letizia Panizza -- The Cinquecento -- The Seicento: Poetry, Philosophy and Science by Paolo Cherchi -- Narrative prose and theatre by Albert N. Mancini -- The Settecento by Franco Fido -- The Age of Romanticism (1800-1870) by Giovanni Carsaniga -- The Literature of United Italy (1870-1910) -- The Rise and Fall of Fascism (1910-45) by Robert Dombroski -- The Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56) by John Gatt-Rutter -- Contemporary Italy (since 1956) by Michael Caesar