01756nam a2200277 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082001900131100002500150245007700175264006100252300001400313336002600327337002800353338002700381520090100408650004801309650002301357650002601380650004601406700002601452232992InACL20260927132436.0260927s1999    xxk               0 eng d  a9780521666220  a0521666228  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a850.9bBRA2231 aBrand, C. P.eauthor14aThe Cambridge history of Italian literature /cC. P. Brand, Lino Pertile 1aCambridge [England] :bCambridge University Press,c1999  a699 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aItaly 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 opera and drama from commedia dell'arte to Pirandello and Dario Fo, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets from Leopardi to Montale, and the novelists from Manzoni to Calvino and Eco.The Cambridge History of Italian Literature is accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars: translations are provide 0aItalian literature -- History and criticism 0aItalian literature 0aHistory and criticism 0aItalian literature, history and criticism1 aPertile, Linoeauthor