Download or read book A Manual of Italian Literature written by Francis Henry Cliffe and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of Italian Literature written by Francis Henry Francis Henry Cliffe and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whoever examines a map of Europe, and sees the position occupied by Italy, must, even without knowledge of history, come to the conclusion that a country situated in so central a position and favoured in so many respects by Nature, cannot have failed to command an exalted rank in the hierarchy of nations. But the most daring conjectures would probably fall short of the brilliant reality. The rise and the dominion of Rome would be regarded in a romance as too improbable for the credulity of the simplest reader, but as a well-established fact in the annals of mankind, it becomes a phenomenon of the most striking importance and interest. That a solitary city should produce brave and distinguished men, and even, aided by wealth and courage, establish settlements in remote countries, is not wonderful; Carthage and Tyre did so at an earlier period, Venice and Genoa did so in times nearer the present; but that a solitary city should play a part reserved apparently only for a great nation, should draw to itself, as in a magic circle, all Italy, should conquer Gaul, Greece, Africa, Spain, Britain, Asia Minor, and even threaten Persia and India, is indeed marvellous.
Download or read book A Manual of Italian Literature written by Francis Henry Cliffe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE was plenty of room in England for a comprehensive sketch of Italian literature, coming down from Dante to the present day; and, though Mr. Cliffe's review of contemporary poets and prose-writers in Italy is meagre and void of illustration, his book as a whole will serve a good purpose. For the centuries preceding the nineteenth his quotations are ample, and convey a fair idea, at any rate in outline, of the principal poets in successive generations, whilst in the case of Leopardi, who to his own countrymen was in some measure what Keats was to Englishmen, he gives us a profusion of specimens in a metrical rendering. Mr. Cliffe is rather offhand in tracing back the literary ideals of Italy to classical times. He declares that he knows no other instance of a great nation," victorious and dominant over the whole civilized world, humbly sitting as a disciple at the feet of one of her captives, and that not only for a short time, but for the whole course of her intellectual development." This states a familiar commonplace with excessive and not quite legitimate emphasis, which a perusal of Mr. Mackail's survey of "Latin Literature" might have done something to modify. No doubt Niebuhr has said that the true poetry of Rome must be found in her history and in her early legends rather than in the finished productions of her literary poets. But what is the true poetry of Rome? The philosophy of Lucretius, the tenderness of Catullus and Tibullus, the fables and the erotics of Ovid, the lyrics of Horace, the heroics of Virgil and Lucan—to what extent were they humble imitations of the Greek, or anything else than a true outcome of Roman genius and circumstance? If Horace had read Pindar and Alcaeus, and if Virgil had read Homer and Theocritus, it is surely unfair and non-natural to conclude that they owed any of their essential qualities to the poets whom they admired and occasionally imitated. What Mr. Cliffe means by saying that their imitation "destroyed everything in their writings that was spontaneous and redolent of their native soil," we are quite unable to imagine. It is true that the Roman authors were "literary" rather than men of originative genius; but that is a very different thing from the exaggeration which we have quoted. Mr. Cliffe's introductory chapter raises questions of great importance, which could not be adequately treated within the limits of seven or eight pages. The chief value of his manual is as a matter-of-fact outline of Italian writers and their works. —The Education Outlook, Volume 50
Download or read book Manual of Business Italian written by Vincent Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual of Business Italian is the most comprehensive, single-volume reference handbook for students and professionals using Italian. Designed for all users, no matter what level of language skill, this manual comprises five parts: * A 6000-word, two-way Glossary of the most useful business terms * A 100-page Written Communications section giving models of 50 letters, faxes and documents * An 80-page Spoken Situations section covering face-to-face and telephone situations * A short Reference Grammar outlining the major grammar features of Italian * A short Business Facts section covering essential information of the country or countries where Italian is used Written by an experienced native and non-native speaker team, this unique volume is an essential, one-stop reference for all students and professionals studying or working in business and management where Italian is used
Download or read book A Manual of Italian Literature written by Cliffe Henry and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Modern Italian Literature written by Ann Caesar and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and vividly written book brings readers into the heart of Italian literary culture from the 1690s to the present. It probes the work of major authors in their broad cultural context, traces the history of audiences and publishers, explores the shifting relationship between public and private, assesses the impact of significant historical trends and events on creative processes, and establishes the continuities as well as the discontinuities of the Italian literary tradition. A synoptic overview at the beginning of the volume is designed to help the reader get her or his bearings in the detail of the nine chapters which follow. Using an essentially chronological framework, the book is divided into three major cultural time-spans: the long eighteenth century, the decades of national identity formation and the creation of modern', industrial Italy between 1816 and 1900, and the twentieth century with its constant renegotiation of national cultural identity. A final epilogue provides a snapshot of Italian literary culture in the near-present. This is a book which will be readily accessible to students and all those interested in Italian culture, and at the same time is based on the most up-to-date scholarship. New readings of the canonical authors rub shoulders with a refreshing attention to standard and popular writing, gender issues, and the interaction between written and oral forms, producing a history of modern Italian literature which is new in its conception and its scope.
Download or read book The Arthur of the Italians written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
Download or read book Epochs of Italian Literature written by Cesare Foligno and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Italian Literature 1265 1907 written by Francesco Flamini and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Italian Literature written by Richard Garnett and published by London, W. Heinmann. This book was released on 1898 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of English Literature Historical and Critical written by Thomas Arnold and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. REVIVAL OF LEARNING. 1450-1558. M. Sismondi, in his admirable work on the Literature of the South of Europe, has a passage,1 explaining the decline of Italian literature in the fifteenth century, which is so strictly applicable to the corresponding decline of English literature for a hundred and seventy years after Chaucer, that we cannot forbear quoting it: ? The century which, after the death of Petrarch, had been devoted by the Italians to the study of antiquity, during which literature experienced no advance, and the Italian language seemed to retrograde, was not, however, lost to the powers of imagination. Poetry, on its first revival, had not received sufficient nourishment. The fund of knowledge, of ideas, and of images, which she called to her aid, was too restricted. The three great men of the fourteenth century, whom we first presented to the. attention of the reader, had, by the sole force of their genius, attained a degree of erudition, and a sublimity of thought, far beyond the spirit of their age. These qualities were entirely personal; and the rest of the Italian bards, like the Pro- poets, were reduced, by the poverty of theirideas, to have recourse to those continual attempts at wit, and to that mixture of unintelligible ideas and incoherent images, which render the perusal of them so fatiguing. The whole of the fifteenth century was employed in extending in every direction the knowledge and resources of the friends of the Muses. Antiquity was unveiled to them in all its elevated characters, ? ita severe laws, its energetic virtue, and its beautiful and engaging mythology; in its subtle and profound philosophy, its overpowering eloquence, and its delightful poetry. Another age was required to knead afresh the clay for the formation of a no...
Download or read book Italian Literature A Very Short Introduction written by Peter Hainsworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Very Short Introduction to Italian Literature, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages up to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies A J written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature written by Robert Gordon and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short accessible introductions to European literature and culture. Twentieth-century Italy was marked by a profound and often convulsive transformation in both society and culture, accompanied at various stages by war, violence and dictatorship. This was Italy's 'difficult' entry into modernity. The voices of Italian literature responded to this transformation with a bewildering combination of excitement and anxiety, from the loud embrace of the new in Futurism to melancholy laments for tradition. In the process, some of the greatest works of modern literature were created. Robert Gordon offers a vivid overview of the century's literature, charting a series of motifs of Italy's 'difficult modernity' - from war to the city, from language to geography, from marginal groups to avant-garde movements - through a wide array of writers and texts.
Download or read book A Short History of Italian Literature written by John Humphreys Whitfield and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Italian Literature written by Ernest Hatch Wilkins and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Italian literature is regarded as comprising all literary composition by Italian writers from the thirteenth century on, whether in Italian or in other languages.
Download or read book Italian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
