| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 699 pages : map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-673) and index. |
| Contents |
Origins and duecento / Jonathan Usher: Poetry. Prose -- Trecento: Dante / Lino Pertile. Boccaccio / Pamela D. Stewart. Petrarch / John Took. Minor writers / Steven Botterill -- Quattrocento / Letizia Panizza: Humanism. Power, patronage and literary associations. Literature in the vernacular -- Cinquecento: Prose / Brian Richardson. Narrative poetry / Peter Marinelli. Lyric poetry / Anthony Oldcorn. Theatre / Richard Andrews -- Seicento : poetry, philosophy and science / Paolo Cherchi: Baroque. Lyric poetry |
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Mock-epic poetry and satire. Treatises -- Narrative prose and theatre / Albert N. Mancini : Narrative prose. Theatre. Opera -- Settecento / Franco Fido: First half of the settecento. Theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni. Opera / David Kimbell. Enlightenment and Parini. Alfieri and pre-romanticism -- Age of romanticism (1800-1870) / Giovanni Carsaniga : Romantic controversy. Monti. Foscolo. Leopardi. Manzoni and the novel. Other novelists and poets of the risorgimento. Opera since 1800 / David Kimbell -- |
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Literature of united Italy (1870-1910): Writer and society in the new Italy / Robert Dombroski. Pirandello / Felicity Firth -- Rise and fall of fascism / Robert Dombroski : Poetry and the avant-garde. Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci. Novel -- Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56) / John Gatt-Rutter: After the liberation. Neo-realism. History and the poets -- Contemporary Italy (since 1956) / Michael Caesar: Late 1950s and the 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. |
| Subject |
Italian literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Brand, C. P. (Charles Peter)
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Pertile, Lino.
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| ISBN |
0521666228 paperback |
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0521434920 hardback |
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