A history of Italian literature

by Richard Garnett

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Crescimbeni,Vite degl’ Arcadi Illustri, 1704-13.—Cantù,L’Abate Parini e la Lombardia nel Secolo XVIII.—Carducci,Parini.—Vernon Lee,Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, 1880. Much of this brilliant book is devoted to music and the stage, but the literary element is never long absent.