[Gutenberg 64529] • A history of Italian literature

CONTENTS The Beginnings of Italian Literature The Early Italian Lyric Dante's Life and Minor Writings The Divine Comedy Petrarch as Man of Letters Petrarch and Laura Boccaccio The Fifteenth Century The Poetical Renaissance of the Fifteenth Century Chivalric Poetry Ariosto and His Imitators Machiavelli and Guicciardini Other Prose-Writers of the Sixteenth Century The Petrarchists Humorous Poetry - The Mock-heroic The Novel The Drama Tasso The Prose of the Seventeenth Century The Poetry of the Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century The Comedy of Masks - The Opera - Drama of the Eighteenth Century The Revival The Regeneration The Nineteenth Century - Middle Period Contemporary Italian Literature Bibliographical Note Index