The Cambridge History of Italian Literature
This first substantial history of Italian literature to appear in the English language for forty years provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of a wide range of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition from its earliest origins to the present day. The volume is accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars. Translations are provided, along with...
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Provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe.
List of contributorsPrefaceAcknowledgementsMapChronologyOrigins and Duecento1The earliest evidence32Poetry53Prose284Dante395Boccaccio706Petrarch897Minor writers1088Humanism1319Power, patronage and literary associations14410Literature in the vernacular152The Cinquecento11Prose18112Narrative poetry23313Lyric poetry25114Theatre277The Seicento: Poetry, Philosophy and Science15The Baroque30116Lyric poetry30317Mock-epic poetry and satire31018Treatises31219Narrative prose31820Theatre32621Opera336The Settecento22The first half of the Settecento34323The theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni35324Opera36325The Enlightenment and Parini37126Alfieri and pre-Romanticism38727The Romantic controversy39928Monti40629Foscolo41230Leopardi41831Manzoni and the novel42732Other novelists and poets of the Risorgimento44033Opera since 1800450The Literature of United Italy (1870-1910)34Writer and society in the new Italy45935Pirandello480The Rise and Fall of Fascism (1910-45)36Poetry and the avant-garde49337Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci50938The novel515The Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56)39After the Liberation53340Neo-realism53541History and the poets553Contemporary Italy (since 1956)42The late 1950s and the 1960s56143The 1970s58144The 1980s599Bibliography607Index674
