Italian literature - The Sicilian School - Article Index

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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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