The Cambridge history of Italian literature

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The work The Cambridge history of Italian literature represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Cambridge history of Italian literature

Statement of responsibility

edited by Peter Brand and Lino Pertile

Contributor

• Brand, C. P., (Charles Peter)
• Pertile, Lino

Subject

• Italian literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Letterkunde
• Italiaans
• Reference works
• Littérature italienne -- Histoire et critique
• Italian literature -- History and criticism
• Reference works

Genre

• Reference works
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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 provided, along with a map, chronological charts, and up-to-date and substantial bibliographies

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

850.9

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ4038

LC item number

.C35 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography