Italian literature - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Petrarch And After
Two facts characterize the literary life of Petrarch: classical research and the new human feeling introduced into his lyric poetry. Nor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy
Italian culture is as varied and diverse as the Italian people. The culture of Italy can be found in the Roman ruins remaining in much of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Music Of Italy
Main articles: Music of Italy, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Art
Culture of Italy - Italian cinema and theatre. The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers had discove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guido Cavalcanti: Encyclopedia Ii - Guido Cavalcanti - Poetry
Cavalcanti is best remembered for belonging to that small but influential group of Tuscan poets that started what is now known as Dolce S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (in Italian "Comedia" or "Commedia", later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Languages Of Italy
Italy currently has one national language, Italian. Several other languages are also spoken throughout the country. Over the centuries ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparative Literature: Encyclopedia - Comparative Literature
Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. lit.) is critical scholarship dealing with the literatures of several different langu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Literature: Encyclopedia - Western Literature
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Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Art
Main articles: Art of Italy, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]] Culture of It ... See also:Culture of Italy, Culture of Italy - N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Religion In Italy
Main articles: Religion in Italy, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guido Cavalcanti: Encyclopedia Ii - Guido Cavalcanti - Legacy
Cavalcanti is widely regarded as the first major poet of Italian literature: Dante calls him "mentor". In the Commedia he says through Od...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Music Of Italy
Since Roman times, Italy has been one of the cultural centers for all of Europe. It was the home of the Italian Renaissance, as well as m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Education
Main articles: Education in Italy, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and [[]] Italy has a statewide educational system, with a five-year p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Languages Of Italy
Main articles: Languages of Italy, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Italy - Religion In Italy
Roman Catholicism is the majority religion — 85% of native-born citizens are nominally Catholic — there are mature Protestant and Jew...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Garden Of The Finzi-continis: Encyclopedia Ii - The Garden Of The Finzi-continis - Plot
The novel opens with a brief prologue set in 1957 in which the narrator, an Italian Jew, describes a visit to the Ferrara cemetery where ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Literature - Types Of Writing
Medieval literature - Religious. As shown in the chart to the right, theological works were the dominant form of literature typically f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Structure And Story
The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche"), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), compose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Vulgari Eloquentia: Encyclopedia Ii - De Vulgari Eloquentia - Models
Dante takes inspiration from rhetoric essays in Latin, Occitan and Italian, and from philosophical readings. The main classic rhetoric te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Literature - Influences
If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized populace of the Eastern Roman Empire during the Chri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Leopard: Encyclopedia Ii - The Leopard - Plot
The story focuses on an aristocratic family headed by a charismatic Prince named Don Fabrizio, and the bulk of the novel is told from his...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Structure And Story
The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche"), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), compose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vittorio Alfieri: Encyclopedia Ii - Vittorio Alfieri - Early Life
He was born at Asti in Piedmont. His father died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his mother, who married a second time, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Renaissance: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Renaissance - Origins
Italian Renaissance - Northern Italy in the High Middle Ages. By the late Middle Ages, central and southern Italy, once the heartland o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Weaver: Encyclopedia Ii - William Weaver - Translations
This bibliography is focused on monographs, and omits many individual stories and poems published in journals and collections. Original I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Literature - Languages
Since Latin was the language of the Catholic Church, which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was virtually the o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Leopard: Encyclopedia Ii - The Leopard - Film Adaptation
The novel served as the basis for a movie by Luchino Visconti. The film has been described as a fresco of Sicilian life because of its op...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Weaver: Encyclopedia Ii - William Weaver - Original Works
William Weaver - Monographs. A Tent In This World (novella, 1950/1999). McPherson & Company (ISBN 0929701585). Duse: A Biography...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vittorio Alfieri: Encyclopedia Ii - Vittorio Alfieri - Literary Career
From this moment Alfieri was seized with an insatiable thirst for theatrical fame, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. His fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Weaver: Encyclopedia Ii - William Weaver - Awards
National Book Award for translation 1969, for Calvino's Cosmicomics P.E.N./Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize 1984, for Umberto ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Leopard: Encyclopedia Ii - The Leopard - Controversy
The novel was assailed from all sides upon its publication. Conservative elements criticized its unflattering portrayal of the Catholic C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Weaver: Encyclopedia Ii - William Weaver - Biography
William Weaver is perhaps best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, but he has translated many other ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern
The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy In The Arts
The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for countless artists for almost 6 centuries–as one of the most well known and great...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Literature - The Byzantine Mosaic
The Roman supremacy in governmental life did not disappear, amplified as it was by its union with the Eastern despotic traditions of rule...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Original Copies
Only two known copies of the original manuscript still remain. One is in Milan, and the other is owned by the Asiatic Society of Bombay. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Leopard: Encyclopedia Ii - The Leopard - Characters
The central character in the novel is Don Fabrizio Corbera, the charismatic Prince of Salina, who dabbles in astronomy and mathematics. F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Renaissance: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Renaissance - Culture
Italian Renaissance - Literature and poetry. Prior to the Renaissance, the Italian language was not the literary language in Italy. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Renaissance: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Renaissance - Development
Italian Renaissance - International relations. Northern Italy was divided into a number of warring city-states, the most powerful being...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Leopard: Encyclopedia Ii - The Leopard - Background
di Lampedusa was the last in a line of minor princes in Sicily, and he had long contemplated writing a historical novel based on his gran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern
The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Original Copies
Only two known copies of the original manuscript still remain. One is in Milan, and the other is owned by the Asiatic Society of Bombay. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Derivative Works
The Divine Comedy - Visual arts. The 1911 silent film L'Inferno, directed by Guiseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa and released...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Bibliography
Italian literature - Further reading. Important German works, besides Gaspary, are those of Wilse and Percopo (illustrated; Leipzig, 18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Nineteenth Century And After
At this point the contemporary period of literature begins. It has been said that the first impulse was given to it by the romantic schoo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Period Of Decadence
From about 1559 began a period of decadence in Italian literature. The Spanish rule oppressed and corrupted the peninsula. The minds of m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Religious Poetry
In the 13th century a mighty religious movement took place in Italy, of which the rise of the two great orders of Saint Francis and Saint...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - The Sicilian School
The year 1230 marks the beginning of the Sicilian School, and of a literature showing more uniform traits. Its importance lies more in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Origins
At the end of the 5th century, when the western Roman empire waned, Latin tradition was kept alive by writers such as Cassiodorus, Boetiu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Early Prose
The production of Italian poetry in the 13th century was abundant and varied, and so was that that of prose. The oldest specimen dates fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - The Spontaneous Development Of Italian Literature
In the year 1282, the year in which the new Florentine constitution of the Arti minori was completed, a period of literature New began th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Development Of The Renaissance
The fundamental characteristic of the literary epoch following that of the Renaissance is that it perfected itself in every kind of art, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - The Renaissance
Leading intellectual figures of the 15th century were Niccolò Niccoli, Giannozzo Manetti, Palla Strozzi, Leonardo Bruni, Francesco Filel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - Dante
Dante, the greatest of Italian poets, also shows these lyrical tendencies. In La Vita Nuova, written in 1321, (so called by its author to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Literature - The Revival In The 18th Century
Having for the most part freed itself from the Spanish dominion in the 18th century, the new political condition of Italy began to improv...   » Read the article