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.
Folders
Chivalric Epic — Italian chivalric epic and romance afterlife, including Ariosto's Orlando tradition and the playful, unstable inheritance of medieval story. (1)
Medieval and Renaissance Prose — Italian medieval and Renaissance prose in historical editions, including frame narrative, novella, political writing, humanism, and the changing vernacular literary world. (1)
Medieval Poetry — Italian medieval poetry, beginning here with Dante's complete Divine Comedy in Longfellow's English translation. (1)
Regional Folklore and Cultural Sketches — Italian regional folklore, oral narratives, local traditions, and cultural sketches in historical collections with collector and editorial mediation kept visible. (2)
Pages
Glossary — A 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 Literature — A 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 Literature — A close-reading guide to the Italian shelf: Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and two regional collections, with attention to language, form, translation, performance, and place.