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Italian prosody is accentual and syllabic, much like English. However, in Italian all syllables are perceived as having the same length, while in English that role is played by feet. [1] The most common metrical line is the hendecasyllable, which is very similar to English iambic pentameter. Shorter lines like the settenario are used as well. [2]
Just like many other Romance languages, Italian verbs express distinct verbal aspects by means of analytic structures such as periphrases, rather than synthetic ones; the only aspectual distinction between two synthetic forms is the one between the imperfetto (habitual past tense) and the passato remoto (perfective past tense), although the ...
The historians of Italian literature are in doubt whether Torquato Tasso should be placed in the period of the highest development of the Renaissance, or whether he should form a period by himself, intermediate between that and the one following. [107] In Rinaldo, he tried to reconcile the Aristotelian rules with the variety of Ariosto.
Medieval Italian literature (5 C, 18 P) Gruppo 63 (20 P) Italian literary movements (3 C, 9 P) P. Works originally published in Italian periodicals (2 C) S.
Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio.
The first person to turn his attention to the matter was Dante Alighieri, who in his De vulgari eloquentia (c. 1303 –c. 1305) put forward the view that the language of literature should be based on no single dialect, but should draw on the best elements of all, to achieve the universal quality to which he aspired as a stylistic ideal (though in practice he himself wrote in an enriched form ...
Andrea Appiani, Vincenzo Monti, oil on canvas, 1809, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan . At the schools of the Somaschi and Barnabite priests, Manzoni received a classical education, based on the study of the great Latin and Italian classics: Virgil, Horace, Petrarch and Dante were among the most studied authors, [1] [2] and the neoclassicism then prevailing in Italian literary culture fostered its ...
Cavalcanti is widely regarded as the first major poet of Italian literature: Dante sees in Guido his mentor; his meter, his language deeply inspire his work (cfr. De Vulgari Eloquentia ), though Guido's esthetic materialism would be taken a step further to an entirely new spiritual, Christian vision of the gentler sex, as personified by ...