The Languages of Literature in Renaissance Italy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198158327 ISBN 13: 9780198158325

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

Synopsis

In the course of the Renaissance, Italian emerged as a national literary language, competing with and eventually supplanting Latin as the normal medium of expression in poetry, prose, and drama. Such a major cultural upheaval was necessarily protracted and complex, and in spite of the achievements of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, many issues remained unresolved into the 15th and 16th centuries. In this volume, Italian and British scholars address a wide variety of linguistic and stylistic topics in Italian Renaissance writing, analyzing general trends, major writers (including Dante, Petrarch, Alberti, Ariosto, Machiavelli, and Tasso), and also lesser-known figures who illustrate the diverse possibilities open to writers of the time.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian

Review:

"Scholars of the Renaissance will find...that these essays are both enjoyable and useful. They read well together because they often address each other in unexpected ways, revealing hidden links that unite our thinking about the Renaissance."--Italica

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0198158327
• ISBN 13: 9780198158325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Hainsworth Peter, Lucchesi Valerio, Roaf Christina, Robey David, Woodhouse J. R.