The Cambridge History of Italian LiteraturePeter Brand, Lino Pertile Cambridge University Press, 1999 M08 28 - 699 pages Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing since its earliest origins. 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 substantial bibliographies. |
Contents
The earliest evidence | 3 |
Poetry | 5 |
Popular and didactic poetry | 6 |
Provencal influence | 8 |
Sicilian school | 9 |
Tuscan imitators | 14 |
Guittone dArezzo | 15 |
Bonagiunta da Lucca | 17 |
The Enlightenment and Parini | 371 |
The Enlightenment in the north | 373 |
The dissident Baretti | 376 |
Caffe the Verri brothers Beccaria | 378 |
from Sensism to neoclassicism | 380 |
Alfieri and preRomanticism | 387 |
Between neoclassicism and preRomanticism | 393 |
The late Settecento autobiographies | 395 |
Guido Guinizzelli | 19 |
Guido Cavalcanti | 22 |
Cavalcantian circle | 25 |
Stilnovo | 26 |
Prose | 28 |
Vernacular translations | 31 |
From exemplum to novella | 33 |
The Novellino | 34 |
The Trecento | 37 |
Dante | 39 |
Early life | 40 |
Vita Nuova | 41 |
Rime | 44 |
Florentine politics | 46 |
The last Rime | 50 |
The political letters | 51 |
The amnesty | 54 |
The last years | 68 |
Boccaccio | 70 |
Caccia di Diana and Rime | 72 |
Filocolo | 73 |
Filostrato Teseida and other works of the 13408 | 74 |
The Decameron | 76 |
Later life and works | 85 |
Petrarch | 89 |
Cultural and moral context | 91 |
The Canzoniere | 92 |
The Trionfi | 104 |
Latin works | 106 |
Minor writers | 108 |
Verse | 114 |
Prose | 120 |
The Quattrocento | 129 |
Humanism | 131 |
Petrarchs legacy | 132 |
Education libraries and translations from Greek | 135 |
Humanist profiles | 137 |
Power patronage and literary associations | 144 |
Rome | 145 |
Venice | 147 |
Naples | 149 |
Ferrara | 150 |
Literature in the vernacular | 152 |
Prose | 154 |
Poetry | 161 |
Theatre | 175 |
The Cinquecento | 179 |
Prose | 181 |
Statecraft and history | 188 |
The individual and society | 203 |
Literature and art | 220 |
Narrative fiction | 223 |
Narrative poetry | 233 |
Ariosto | 234 |
From Ariosto to Tasso | 240 |
Tasso | 243 |
Lyric poetry | 251 |
Bembo and the classicist tradition | 252 |
parody satire burlesque | 268 |
Theatre | 277 |
Scripted comedy to 1550 | 278 |
Commedia dellarte | 284 |
Scripted comedy after 1550 | 286 |
Classical tragedy and tragicomedy | 288 |
Pastoral drama | 292 |
The Seicento | 299 |
POETRY PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE | 301 |
Lyric poetry | 303 |
The Baroque vanguard | 304 |
Marino and his followers | 305 |
Classicists | 308 |
Mockepic poetry and satire | 310 |
Satiric poetry | 311 |
Treatises | 312 |
Writers on politics history and morals | 313 |
Science writers | 316 |
Narrative prose and Theatre | 318 |
The novella | 322 |
Travel literature and autobiography | 324 |
Theatre | 326 |
Commedia dellarte | 327 |
Regular comedy | 329 |
Tragedy | 331 |
Pastoral plays | 334 |
Opera | 336 |
Opera for the public theatre | 338 |
The Settecento | 341 |
The first half of the Settecento | 343 |
Muratori and historiography | 344 |
polygraphs journalists and dramatists | 345 |
Giannone Vico Genovesi | 347 |
Arcadia | 350 |
The theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni | 353 |
Goldoni and comedy | 355 |
Gozzi and the Fiabe | 361 |
Opera | 363 |
After Metastasio | 367 |
The age of Romanticism 18001870 | 397 |
The Romantic controversy | 399 |
The controversy over translations | 401 |
Did Italian Romanticism exist? | 402 |
Women writers and the literary canon | 403 |
Monti | 406 |
The language of classicism | 408 |
The uses of mythology | 409 |
Foscolo | 412 |
Le Grazie | 413 |
a smoky enigma | 415 |
Exile | 416 |
Leopardi | 418 |
the evolution of the Canti | 421 |
Nature and society | 423 |
Leopardi and his readers | 425 |
Manzoni and the novel | 427 |
The novel | 431 |
The ideological programme | 432 |
From Fenno e Lucia to promessi sposi | 434 |
The questione della lingua | 435 |
Room to dissent | 437 |
Other novelists and poets of the Risorgimento | 440 |
Nievo | 441 |
Political literature and literary criticism | 444 |
Popular poetry | 445 |
Tommaseo | 447 |
Opera since 1800 | 450 |
Opera since unification | 453 |
The literature of united Italy 18701910 | 457 |
Writer and society in the new Italy | 459 |
Carducci and classicism | 461 |
Naturalism and verismo | 463 |
The borders of naturalism | 470 |
Popular fiction | 479 |
Pirandello | 480 |
Early essays and novels | 481 |
Short stories | 483 |
Theatre | 484 |
The Rise and Fall of Fascism 191045 | 491 |
Poetry and the avantgarde | 493 |
Futurism | 495 |
Poetry | 497 |
Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci | 509 |
Croce | 510 |
Gentile | 511 |
Gramsci | 513 |
Fascism and culture | 514 |
The novel | 515 |
Borgese | 519 |
Tozzi | 520 |
Bontempelli and Alvaro | 521 |
Savinio and Buzzati | 523 |
Solaria | 524 |
Bilenchi | 525 |
Vittorini | 526 |
Gadda | 527 |
The aftermath of the Second World War 194556 | 531 |
After the Liberation | 533 |
Neorealism | 535 |
Peasant novels | 537 |
Pavese | 539 |
Vittorini | 543 |
Naples and the urban south | 545 |
The death camps | 546 |
The female subject | 547 |
Beyond the fringe of neorealism | 549 |
History and the poets | 553 |
Pasolini | 556 |
Contemporary Italy since 1956 | 559 |
The late 1950s and the 1960s | 561 |
Novels of memory | 563 |
Reviews | 564 |
Industrial novels | 568 |
Poets of the neoavantgarde | 570 |
Experimental novels | 575 |
The 19705 | 581 |
Theatre | 587 |
Fiction | 588 |
The 1980s | 599 |
Women writers | 600 |
Tabucchi | 602 |
A new generation of writers | 603 |
Bibliography | 607 |
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QUATTROCENTO | 622 |
CINQUECENTO | 627 |
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Common terms and phrases
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