The Cambridge History of Italian Literature

The Cambridge History of Italian Literature
Author: Peter Brand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521434928

'There is no doubt that the present splendid volume ... is likely to remain unrivalled for many years to come for width of coverage, richness of detail, and elegance of presentation.' Modern Language Reviews

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
Author: Zygmunt G. Barânski (ed)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2001-08-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521559829

This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and suggests possible future directions in which the country might move. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy.

Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy

Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy
Author: Alison Cornish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139495380

Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend.

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)
Author: Alejandro Coroleu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443861057

With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.

A Concise History of Italy

A Concise History of Italy
Author: Christopher Duggan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1994-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521408486

A concise history of Italy from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day.

The Italian Idea

The Italian Idea
Author: Will Bowers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491960

A dual-perspective study of how English engagement with Italy, and the work of Italian exiles in London, radicalised Romantic poetry.

Echoing Voices in Italian Literature

Echoing Voices in Italian Literature
Author: Teresa Franco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527524558

This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.

The City of Poetry

The City of Poetry
Author: David Lummus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108839452

Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.

Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy

Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy
Author: Simon Gilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108186866

Simon Gilson's new volume provides the first in-depth account of the critical and editorial reception in Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence, Venice and Padua, of the work of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Gilson investigates a range of textual frameworks and related contexts that influenced the way in which Dante's work was produced and circulated, from editing and translation to commentaries, criticism and public lectures. In so doing he modifies the received notion that Dante and his work were eclipsed during the Renaissance. Central themes of investigation include the contestation of Dante's authority as a 'classic' writer and the various forms of attack and defence employed by his detractors and partisans. The book pays close attention not only to the Divine Comedy but also to the Convivio and other of Dante's writings, and explores the ways in which the reception of these works was affected by contemporary developments in philology, literary theory, philosophy, theology, science and printing.