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The Cambridge History of Italian Literature

Series The Cambridge History of Italian Literature, Volume 1

Edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile

Publication Date 1996

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521434928

Hardback ISBN-10
0521434920

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521434928

Overview

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.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
The Cambridge History of Italian Literature in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Origins and Duecento

The Trecento

The Quattrocento

The Cinquecento

The Seicento: Poetry, Philosophy and Science

The Seicento: Narrative prose and theatre

The Settecento

The Age of Romanticism (1800–1870)

The Literature of United Italy (1870–1910)

The Rise and Fall of Fascism (1910–45)

The Aftermath of the Second World War (1945–56)

Contemporary Italy (since 1956)

Bibliography

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