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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 LiteratureReading paths through Dante, Boccaccio, and Ariosto, plus an explicit map of the Italian originals, women, regional languages, theatre, modern writing, and transnational fields still absent.
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.

Regional Folklore and Cultural Sketches2 pages

Italian regional folklore, oral narratives, local traditions, and cultural sketches in historical collections with collector and editorial mediation kept visible.

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