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Italian
Italian-language literature across city-states, regions, courts, republics, nation, diaspora, and migration—opened with Dante, Boccaccio, and Ariosto without mistaking three Tuscan-centered monuments for the whole field.
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Texts
GlossaryA reader glossary for Italian literary language, forms, periods, regional relations, performance traditions, and the three historical English editions currently on the shelf.Introduction to Italian-Language LiteratureA source-critical introduction to Italian literature as a multilingual, regional, pre-national and transnational field, with explicit attention to editions, women, dialects, migration, and the current shelf's limits.Reader's Guide to Italian-Language LiteratureA close-reading guide to the Italian shelf: Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and two regional collections, with attention to language, form, translation, performance, and place.
Chivalric Epic1 page
Italian chivalric epic and romance afterlife, including Ariosto's Orlando tradition and the playful, unstable inheritance of medieval story.
Medieval and Renaissance Prose1 page
Italian medieval and Renaissance prose in historical editions, including frame narrative, novella, political writing, humanism, and the changing vernacular literary world.
Medieval Poetry1 page
Italian medieval poetry, beginning here with Dante's complete Divine Comedy in Longfellow's English translation.