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040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a850.9 _bBRA _223
100	1		_aBrand, C. P. _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe Cambridge history of Italian literature / _cC. P. Brand, Lino Pertile
264		1	_aCambridge [England] : _bCambridge University Press, _c1999
300			_a699 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_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
650		0	_aItalian literature -- History and criticism
650		0	_aItalian literature
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aItalian literature, history and criticism
700	1		_aPertile, Lino _eauthor
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