The Cambridge History of Italian Literature

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Peter Brand, Lino Pertile
Cambridge University Press, Aug 28, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 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
ORIGINS AND DUECENTO
609
TRECENTO
612
QUATTROCENTO
622
CINQUECENTO
627
THE SEICENTO
641
SETTECENTO
646
THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM 18001870
652
OPERA GENERAL
657
LITERATURE OF UNITED ITALY 18701910
659
THE NOVECENTO SINCE 1910
663
Index
674
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