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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Italian literature | | | |  Italian literature: Encyclopedia II - The Divine Comedy - Thematic ConcernThe 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 ...
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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 - 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 - Original copies |
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The Divine Comedy - Visual arts.
The 1911 silent film L'Inferno, directed by Guiseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa and released on DVD in 2004, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream; see IMDb reference; Silent era.com.
The 1935 motion picture Dante's Inferno directed by Harry Lachman, written by Philip Klein and starring Spencer Tracy.
The interpretation of hell in the 1998 film What Dreams May Come is heavily inspired by Dante's Inferno.
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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 - Derivative works |
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Italian literature - Further reading.
Important German works, besides Gaspary, are those of Wilse and Percopo (illustrated; Leipzig, 1899), and of Casini (in Grober's Grundr. der rom. Phil. , Strasbourg, 1896-1899).
English students are referred to Symonds's Renaissance in Italy (especially, but not exclusively, vols. iv. and v.; new ed., London, 1902), and to R. Garnett's < ...
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| | | | | 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 school, which had as its organ the Conciliatome established in 1818 at Milan, and on the staff of which were Silvio Pellico, Lodovico di Breme, Giovile Scalvini, Tommaso Grossi, Giovanni Berchet, Samuele Biava and lastly Alessandro Manzoni. It need not be denied that all these men were influenced by the ideas that, especially in Germany, at the beginning of the 19th century constituted the movement called Romant ...
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| | | | | 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 men were day by day gradually losing their force; every high aspiration was quenched. No love of country could any longer be felt when the cotfntry was enslaved to a stranger. The suspicious rulers fettered all freedom of thought and word; they tortured Campanella, burned Bruno, made every effort to extinguish all high sentiment, all desire for good. Cesare Balbo says, if the happiness of the masses consists ...
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| | | | | 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 Dominic was at once the cause and effect. Around Francis of Assisi a legend has grown up in which the imaginative element prevails: the saint's miracles and visions, his ability to talk to animals. Not only was Francis a great mystic and a powerful reformer of the Catholic Church, he is considered remarkably modern for giving a moral dignity to nature. Though Francis was educated, his poetry is a far cry f ...
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| | | | | 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 the language (the creation of the first standard Italian) than its subject, a love-song partly modelled on the Provençal poetry imported to the south by the Normans and the Svevs under Frederick II. This poetry differs from the French equivalent in its treatment of the woman, certainly less erotic and more platonic, a vein which further developed by Dolce Stil Novo in later 13th century Bologna and Florence. ...
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| | | | | 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, Boetius, Symmachus. A new kingdom arose at Ravenna under Theodoric. The liberal arts flourished, the Gothic kings surrounded themselves with masters of rhetoric and of grammar. There remained in Italy some lay schools, and some extraordinary scholars, such as Magnus Felix Ennodius, a poet more pagan than Christian, Arator, Venantius Fortunatus, Venantius Jovannicius, Felix the grammarian, Peter ...
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| | | | | 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 from 1231, and consists of short notices of entries and expenses by Mattasal di Spinello dei Lambertini of Siena. At this time, there was no sign of literary prose in Italian, though there is some in French. Halfway through the century, a certain Aldobrando or Aldobrandino, from either Florence or Siena, wrote a book for Beatrice of Savoy, countess of Provence, called Le Régime du corps. In 1267 Marti ...
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| | | | | 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 that does not belong to the age of first Tuscan begin nings, but to that of development. With the school School of Lapo Gianni, of Guido Cavalcanti, of Cino da of lysic Pistoia and Dante Alighieri, lyric poetry became exclusively Tuscan. The whole novelty and poetic power of this school, which really was the beginning of Italian art, consist in what Dante expresses so happily Quando Amore spira, noto, ed a ...
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| | | | | 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, in particular uniting the essentially Italian character of its language with classicism of style. This period lasted from about 1494 to about 1560; and, strange to say, this very period of greater fruitfulness and literary greatness began from the year 1494, which with Charles VIII.s descent into Italy marked the beginning of its political decadence and of foreign domination over it. But this is not hard to ...
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| | | | | 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 Filelfo, Poggio Bracciolini, Carlo d'Arezzo, Lorenzo Valla. Manetti buried himself in his books, slept only for a few hours in the night, never went out of doors, and spent his time in translating from Greek, studying Hebrew, and commenting on Aristotle. Palla Strozzi sent into Greece at his own expense to search for ancient books, and bad Plutarch and Plato brought for him. Poggio Bracciolini went to the Counci ...
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| | | | | 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 indicate that his first meeting with Beatrice was the beginning of a life entirely different from that he had hitherto led) there is a high idealization of love. It seems as if there were in it nothing earthly or human, and that the poet had his eyes constantly fixed on heaven while singing of his lady. Everything is supersensual, aerial, heavenly, and the real Beatrice is always gradually melting m ...
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| | | | | 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 improve. Promoters of this improvement, which manifested itself in civil reform, were Joseph II, Leopold I and Charles I. These princes were influenced by philosophers, who in their turn felt the influence of a general movement of ideas at large in many parts of Europe, and which came to a head in the French encyclopedists.
Giambattista Vico was a token of the awakening of historical consciousness in Italy ...
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