ITALIAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.—1. Italian Literature and its Divisions.—2. The Dialects. —3. The Italian Language.
PERIOD FIRST.—1. Latin Influence.—2. Early Italian Poetry and Prose. —3. Dante—4. Petrarch.—5. Boccaccio and other Prose Writers.—6. First Decline of Italian Literature.
PERIOD SECOND.—1. The Close of the Fifteenth Century; Lorenzo de'
Medici.—2. The Origin of the Drama and Romantic Epic; Poliziano, Pulci,
Boiardo.—3. Romantic Epic Poetry; Ariosto.—4. Heroic Epic Poetry;
Tasso.—5. Lyric Poetry; Bembo, Molza, Tarsia, V. Colonna.—6. Dramatic
Poetry; Trissino, Rucellai; the Writers of Comedy.—7. Pastoral Drama and
Didactic Poetry; Beccari, Sannazzaro, Tasso, Guarini, Rucellai, Alamanni.
—8. Satirical Poetry, Novels, and Tales; Berni, Grazzini, Firenzuola,
Bandello, and others.—9. History; Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Nardi, and
others.—10. Grammar and Rhetoric; the Academy della Crusca, Della Casa,
Speroni, and others.—11. Science, Philosophy, and Politics; the Academy
del Cimento, Galileo, Torricelli, Borelli, Patrizi, Telesio, Campanella,
Bruno, Castiglione, Machiavelli, and others.—12. Decline of the
Literature in the Seventeenth Century.—13. Epic and Lyric Poetry; Marini,
Filicaja.—14. Mock Heroic Poetry, the Drama, and Satire; Tassoni,
Bracciolini, Anderini, and others.—15. History and Epistolary Writings;
Davila, Bentivoglio, Sarpi, Redi.
PERIOD THIRD.—1. Historical Development of the Third Period.—2. The Melodrama; Rinuccini, Zeno, Metastasio.—3. Comedy; Goldoni, C. Gozzi, and others.—4. Tragedy; Maffei, Alfieri, Monti, Manzoni, Nicolini, and others.—5. Lyric, Epic, and Didactic Poetry; Parini, Monti, Ugo Foscolo, Leopardi, Grossi, Lorenzi, and others.—6. Heroic-Comic Poetry, Satire, and Fable; Fortiguerri, Passeroni, G. Gozzi, Parini, Ginsti, and others. —7. Romances; Verri, Manzoni, D'Azeglio, Cantù, Guerrazzi, and others. —8. History; Muratori, Vico, Giannone, Botta, Colletta, Tiraboschi, and others.—9. Aesthetics, Criticism, Philology, and Philosophy; Baretti, Parini, Giordani, Gioja, Romagnosi, Gallupi, Roemini, Gioberti.—From 1860 to 1885.