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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Italian literature | | | |  Italian literature: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine Literature - InfluencesIf Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized populace of the Eastern Roman Empire during the Christian Middle Ages, then it is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system, set in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Near East. Byzantine literature partakes of four different cultural elements: the Greek, the Christian, the Roman, and the Oriental, the character of which commingling with the rest. To Hellenistic in ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 individual perspective. As the novel opens in 1848, Garibaldi's Redshirts are about to topple the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, completing the unification of Italy. Don Fabrizio finds the corpse of a government soldier killed by the Redshirts on his property, forcing him to acknowledge the coming change in Sicilian society, even as his family continues its empty aris ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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), composed respectively of 34, 33, and 33 cantos. The first cantica, Inferno, is by far the most famous of the three, and is often published separately under the title Dante's Inferno. As a part of the whole literary work, the first canto serves as an introduction to the entire Divine Comedy, making each of the canticas 33 cantos lon ...
See also:The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - Derivative works, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes Read more here: » The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia II - The Divine Comedy - Structure and story |
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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, until, at the age of ten, he was placed in the academy of Turin. After a year at the academy, he went on a short visit to a relative at Coni. During his stay there he composed a sonnet chiefly borrowed from lines in Ariosto and Metastasio, the only poets he had at that time read. At thirteen, Alfieri began the study of civil and canonical law, but this only made him more interested in literature, particular ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 of the Roman Empire, was far poorer than the north. Rome was a city largely in ruins, and the Papal States were a loosely administered region with little law and order. Partially because of this, the Papacy had relocated to Avignon, France. Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia h ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: Encyclopedia II - William Weaver - Translations This bibliography is focused on monographs, and omits many individual stories and poems published in journals and collections. Original Italian titles and publication dates follow the English translations. Translation dates are those of Weaver's translation; ISBNs are those of editions in print at the time this entry was created. Weaver did not translate all of the works of the following authors, so the lists below do not represent their complete bodies of work.
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| | | | | Italian 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 only source of education, Latin was a common language for Medieval writings, even in some parts of Europe that were never Romanized. However, in Eastern Europe, the influence of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox Church made Greek and Old Church Slavonic the dominant written languages.
The common people continued to use their respective vernaculars. A few examples, such as the Old English Be ...
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| | | | | | Italian literature: Encyclopedia II - William Weaver - Original Works
William Weaver - Monographs.
A Tent In This World (novella, 1950/1999). McPherson & Company (ISBN 0929701585).
Duse: A Biography. Harvest/HBJ (ISBN 0156262592).
The Golden Century of Italian opera from Rossini to Puccini (1980). Thames and Hudson (ISBN 0500012407).
Puccini: The Man and His Music (1977). E. P. Dutton, Metropolitan Opera Guild composer series.
The Puccini Companion : Essays ...
See also:William Weaver, William Weaver - Biography, William Weaver - Translations, William Weaver - Italo Calvino, William Weaver - Umberto Eco, William Weaver - Others, William Weaver - As Editor, William Weaver - Original Works, William Weaver - Monographs, William Weaver - Articles and Contributions, William Weaver - Interviews, William Weaver - Awards, William Weaver - Quotes, William Weaver - Sources Read more here: » William Weaver: Encyclopedia II - William Weaver - Original Works |
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 first two tragedies, Filippo and Polinice, were originally written in French prose. When he came to versify them in Italian, he found that, because of his Lombard origin and many dealings with foreigners, he was poor at expressing himself. With the view of improving his Italian, he went to Tuscany and, during an alternate residence at Florence and Siena, he completed Filippo and Polinic ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 Eco's The Name of the Rose
1990, for Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum
The John Florio Prize for Italian Translations from The Society of Authors
1969, for Pier Pasolini's A Violent Life
1971, for Giorgio Bassani's The Heron
1971, for Italo Calvino's Time and the Hunter
1992, for Rosetta Loy's < ...
See also:William Weaver, William Weaver - Biography, William Weaver - Translations, William Weaver - Italo Calvino, William Weaver - Umberto Eco, William Weaver - Others, William Weaver - As Editor, William Weaver - Original Works, William Weaver - Monographs, William Weaver - Articles and Contributions, William Weaver - Interviews, William Weaver - Awards, William Weaver - Quotes, William Weaver - Sources Read more here: » William Weaver: Encyclopedia II - William Weaver - Awards |
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| | | | | | Italian literature: 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 prominent Italian authors over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years. In addition to prose, he has translated Italian poetry and opera libretti, and has worked as a critic and commentator on broadcasts of the U.S. Metropolitan Opera.
Born in Virginia and educated at Princeton University, Weaver was an ambulance driver in Italy during World War II for the American Field Service, and li ...
See also:William Weaver, William Weaver - Biography, William Weaver - Translations, William Weaver - Italo Calvino, William Weaver - Umberto Eco, William Weaver - Others, William Weaver - As Editor, William Weaver - Original Works, William Weaver - Monographs, William Weaver - Articles and Contributions, William Weaver - Interviews, William Weaver - Awards, William Weaver - Quotes, William Weaver - Sources Read more here: » William Weaver: Encyclopedia II - William Weaver - Biography |
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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. Dante's allegory, however, is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical).
The structure of the poem, likewise, is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns arching throughout the work, particularly threes an ...
See also:The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy in the arts, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes Read more here: » The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia II - The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern |
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 greatest artistic works in the Western tradition, its influence on culture can not be overestimated. Listed here are some examples.
The Divine Comedy - Visual arts.
Before his death in 1827, William Blake, the English poet and painter, planned and executed several watercolour illustrations to Dante's Inferno. Though he did not finish the series before his death, t ...
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| | | | | Italian 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 rulership. The subjection of the Church to the power of the State led to a governmental ecclesiasticism, causing friction with Roman Catholic Church, which had remained relatively independent.
Greek eventually overtook Latin as the official language of the government, the "Novellae" of Justinian I being the last Latin monument. As early as the seventh century Greek language had made great progress, and b ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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. In 1930, Mussolini offered the society one million pounds sterling for the book, but was flatly refused.
According to the Società Dantesca Italiana, no original manuscript written by Dante survived; there are many manuscript copies from the 14th and 15th ce ...
See also:The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy in the arts, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes Read more here: » The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia II - The Divine Comedy - Original copies |
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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. Fabrizio recognizes the tremendous changes coming to Italian society and what that means for himself, his family, and the aristocracy in general.
Don Fabrizio's nephew, Tancredi Falconeri, plays a supporting role as a new form of aristocrat, one who parlays the declining value of his family name into political power through his interpersonal skills and via marriage to the wealthy and beautiful but untitled Angelica Sedora, daughter of the crude Don Calogero Sedora, who has made his money by capita ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 was only in the 13th century that Italian authors began writing in their native language rather than Latin, French, or Provençal. The 1250s saw a major change in Italian poetry as the Dolce Stil Novo (Sweet New Style, which emphasized Platonic rather than courtly love) came into its own, pioneered by poets like Guittone d'Arezzo and Guido Guinizelli. Especially in p ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: Encyclopedia II - Italian Renaissance - Development
Italian Renaissance - International relations.
Northern Italy was divided into a number of warring city-states, the most powerful being Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, and Venice. Northern Italy was further divided by the long running battle for supremacy between the forces of the Papacy and of the Holy Roman Empire. Each city aligned itself with one faction or the other, yet was divided internally between the two warring parties. Warfare between the states was common, invasion from outside Italy le ...
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| | | | | Italian literature: 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 grandfather, another Prince of Lampedusa. After the Lampedusa palace was bombed and pillaged by Allied forces in World War II, di Lampedusa sank into a lengthy depression, and began to write Il Gattopardo as a way to combat it.
Most of the novel is set during the time of the Risorgimento, specifically during the period when Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, swept through S ...
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