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This period is known in the history of Italian literature as the Secentismo. [120] Its writers deployed complex, far-fetched comparisons, paradoxes, and paralogical statements (acutezze) in order to exhibit the writer's genius and ingenuity (ingegno), and provoke wonder (meraviglia) in the reader. [121]
Category: History of literature in Italy. ... 20th-century Italian literature (2 C, 7 P) 21st-century Italian literature (2 C, 2 P) L. Literary museums in Italy (3 P) M.
The Storia della letteratura italiana (History of Italian Literature) is an essay written by Italian literary critic Francesco de Sanctis, published by Morano in two volumes in 1870 and 1871. It is considered the first truly complete, organic treatment of Italian literature as a whole.
The history of literature is the historical development of writings ... Divine Comedy is a narrative poem that is regarded as a preeminent work in Italian literature. ...
Deborah Parker (1996). "Women in the Book Trade in Italy, 1475-1620". Renaissance Quarterly. 49 (3): 509–541. doi:10.2307/2863365. JSTOR 2863365. S2CID 164039060. Paul F. Gehl (2000), Printing History and Book Arts: Recent Trends in the History of the Italian Book, archived from the original on 2017-12-01 – via Newberry Library
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Dante was more aware than most early Italian writers of the variety of Italian dialects and of the need to create a literature and a unified literary language beyond the limits of Latin writing at the time; in that sense, he is a forerunner of the Renaissance, with its effort to create vernacular literature in competition with earlier classical ...
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.