A history of Italian literature

by Richard Garnett

GENERAL COLLECTIONS OF ITALIAN AUTHORS

D’Ancona and Bacci, Manuale della Letteratura italiana, 5 vols. 1893-95. A most admirable selection, both for its soundness of judgment and its comprehensiveness. The notices of the various authors prefixed to the selections are excellent from the biographical and bibliographical points of view, and also from the critical when criticism is sufficiently full, which is not always the case.—Cantù, La Letteratura italiana esposta, &c., 1851, and Morandi, Antologia, 1893, are inferior to D’Ancona and Bacci, yet deserve attention.