01787nam a2200289 i 4500 232992 InACL 20260927132436.0 260927s1999 xxk 0 eng d 9780521666220 0521666228 InACL eng rda InACL 850.9 BRA 23 Brand, C. P. author The Cambridge history of Italian literature / C. P. Brand, Lino Pertile Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1999 699 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Italy 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 Italian literature -- History and criticism Italian literature History and criticism Italian literature, history and criticism Pertile, Lino author 632947 632947 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-27 0 850.9 BRA 232992 2026-09-27 13:24:36 2026-09-27 BK