A history of Italian literature

by Richard Garnett

INDEX

Adelchi, [346]
Adone, [273], [274]
Alamanni, Luigi, his Girone, [152];
his didactic poetry, [202];
his satires, [203]
Alberti, Leone Battista, [105]-[107]
Aleardi, Aleardo, [388], [389]
Alfieri, Count Vittorio, biography, [316]-[319];
tragedies, [319], [320];
minor writings, [321]
Algarotti, Francesco, [296]
Alphonso, Duke of Ferrara, [240], [244]
Amari, Michele, [382]
Amicis, Edmondo de, [408]
Aminta, [233], [234]
Ammirato, Scipione, [173]
Andreini, [233]
Angioleri, Cecco, [20]
Annunzio, Gabriele d’, as poet, [402]-[406];
as novelist, [409];
on the Italian language, [415]
Arcadia, [123], [124]
Arcadian Academy, [279]-[298]
Aretino, Pietro, [182];
his comedies, [232]
Ariosto, Lodovico, biography, [140]-[143];
his Orlando Furioso, [143]-[154];
minor poetical works, [151];
satires, [203];
comedies, [230], [231]
Arnaboldi, Alessandro, [408]
Arnaldo da Brescia, [350]
Arnold, Matthew, on Alfieri, [320]
Asolani, Gli, [180]
Azeglio, Massimo d’, [349], [384]
Baccelli, Alfredo, [408]
Balbo, Cesare, [383]
Ballala, the, [10]
Bandello, Matteo, [218], [219]
Barberino, Francesco, [21]
Baretti, Giuseppe, [297]
Barrili, Giulio, [409]
Basile, Giovanni, l’entamerone, [221]
Bassvilliana, La, [334]
Beatrice de’ Portinari, Dante’s lady, [25], [26], [32]
Beccaria, Cesare, [293]
Belli, Gioacchino, [368], [369]
Bello, Francesco, [138]
Bembo, Pietro, his history of Venice, [174], [175];
his Asolani, [180];
his letters, [183];
his poems, [188], [189]
Benivieni, Girolamo, [121]
Bentivoglio, Cardinal Guido, [269], [273]
Beolco, Angelo, [232]
Berchet, Giovanni, [386]
Berni, Francesco, his humorous poetry, [204], [205];
his rifacimento of Boiardo, [206], [207]
Bibbiena, Cardinal, [142], [230]
Bible, translated into Italian, [113]
Biondo, Flavio, [111]
Bisticci, Vespasiano da, [107]
Boccaccio, Giovanni, his sonnet on Dante, [31];
his friendship with Petrarch, [61], [84];
his biography, [82]-[85];
his romances, [85]-[87];
his Decameron, [87]-[90];
his poetry, [91]-[95];
his character, [96]
Boccalini, Trajano, [270], [271]
Boiardo, Matteo Maria, his Orlando Innamorato, [131], [138];
his lyrics, [139];
his Timone, [230]
Bonghi, Ruggiero, [411]
Borgia, Girolamo, [172]
Botta, Carlo, [380]
Bovio, Giuseppe, [408]
Bracciolini, Francesco, [209]
Bracciolini, Poggio, [111]
Bracco, Roberto, [408]
Bruni, Leonardo, his life of Dante, [27];
translates Plato and Aristotle, [111]
Bruno, Giordano, [260]-[263]
Bryant, [339]
Buonarotti, M. A., [232]
Burchiello, Domenico, [101]
Byron, [354]
Campanella, Tommaso, [263], [265]
Cantù, Cesare, [349], [381]
Canzone, the, [8]
Canzoniere, Il, [66], [67]
Capponi, Gino, [104]
Capuana, Luigi, [408]
Carducci, Giosuè, sonnet on Dante, [52];
his beneficial influence, [328];
leading position in modern Italian literature, [396], [397];
characteristics of his poetry, [397]-[401];
founder of a school of poets, [402]
Carmagnola, [346]
Caro, Annibale, [192]
Carrer, Luigi, [387]
Casa, Giovanni della, [179], [193]
Casti, Giovanni Battista, [302], [303]
Castiglione, Baldassare, his Cortegiano, [178]-[180]
Cavalcanti, Guido, [17], [18]
Cavalieri, Tommaso de’, [197]
Cavallotti, Felice, [407], [408]
Cayley, C. B., on Petrarch’s Canzoniere, [66], [67]
Cellini, Benvenuto, his autobiography, [177], [178]
Cerlone, Francesco, [307]
Charles V., Caro’s sonnet upon, [192]
Chaucer, [61], [90], [91], [98]
Chiabrera, Gabriello, [276]-[279], [397]
Chiari, Abate, [308]
Chiarini, Giuseppe, [411]
Chrysoloras, Emanuel, [111]
Cielo dal Carno, [7]
Cino da Pistoia, [18]-[20]
Cinthio, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, [219], [229]
Ciriaco di Ancona, [105]
Clement VI., Pope, [58], [69]
Clement VII., Pope, [158]
Clement VIII., Pope, [246], [257]
Clerke, Miss Ellen, translations by, [93], [117], [135], [148], [250], [347]
Clough, quoted, [331]
Coleridge, S. T., [35], [61], [62], [361], [390]
Colletta, Pietro, [380], [381]
Colonna, Cardinal, patron of Petrarch, [55], [59]
Colonna, Francesco, [108]
Colonna, Vittoria, her sonnet to Bembo, [191];
poems on her husband, [194];
Michael Angelo’s attachment to her, [197]
Commedia dell’arte, [305], [306]
Compagni, Dino, chronicle attributed to, [27], [103], [104]
Comparetti, Domenico, [411], [413]
Conti, Giusto de’, [101]
Convito, Il, [34]
Coppetta, Francesco, [203], [204]
Coronal of Sonnets, Tasso’s, [255]
Cortegiano, Il, [178]-[180]
Cosmo de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, [166]
Cossa, Pietro, [391], [392]
Costanzo, Angelo di, his history of Naples, [176];
his poems, [193], [194]
Courthope, W. J., [146]
Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario, [294], [298]
Dacre, Lady, translation from Pulci by, [130]
Dante Alighieri, biography, [24]-[31];
Vita Nuova, [31]-[34];
Convito, [34]-[36];
De Monarchia, [36], [37];
Divina Commedia, [40]-[52];
Petrarch upon him, [63], [77];
Boccaccio upon him, [93], [96]
Davila, Enrico Caterino, [268]
Decamerone, Il, [88]-[90]
De Monarchia, [36], [37]
Denina, Carlo, [296]
De Vulgari Eloquio, [36]
Discorsi sopra Tito Livio, [161]
Divina Commedia, La, [40]-[52]
Este, house of, [141], [144]
Farini, Luigi Carlo, [383]
Farini, Salvatore, [409]
Ferrari, Giuseppe, [379]
Fiamma, Gabriele, [198]
Fiammetta, Boccaccio’s innamorata, [83]
Fiammetta, La, [86]-[88]
Filangieri, Gaetano, [293]
Filicaja, Vincenzo, [283]-[285]
Filocopo, Il, [85], [86]
Filostrato, Il, [91], [92]
Firenzuola, Agnolo, [182], [217]
Fogazzaro, Antonio, [408], [409]
Folengo, Teofilo, [207]
Folgore di San Geminiano, [20]
Fortiguerri, Niccoló, [210]
Foscolo, Ugo, life and works, [337]-[341]
Francis of Assisi, St., [16]
Frederick II., Emperor of Germany, [6], [7]
Frezzi, Frederico, [100]
Galiani, Ferdinando, [294]
Galileo, [259]
Gallina, Giacinto, [408]
Gelli, Giovanni Battista, [181]
Gemma Donati, Dante’s wife, [28], [29]
Genovesi, Antonio, [294]
Gentili, Alberico, [266]
Gerusalemme Liberata, La, [246]-[253]
Giannone, Pietro, [291], [292]
Gil Vicente, [225]
Ginguené, [77], [143]
Gioberti, Vincenzo, [370], [371], [377], [378]
Giordani, Pietro, [369], [370]
Giorno, Il, [299]
Giostra, La, [117]
Giovanni Fiorentino, [102], [215], [216]
Giovio, Paolo, [172]
Giusti, Giuseppe, [365]-[368]
Giustiniani, Leonardo, [102]
Glassford, James, translation from Sannazaro by, [187]
Goethe, on I Promessi Sposi, [348]
Goldoni, Carlo, controversy with Gozzi, [308];
life, [321]-[323];
comedies, [323], [324]
Gosse, Edmund, translation of a sonnet of Redi by, [282]
Gozzi, Carlo, life and dramatic writings, [307]-[309]
Gozzi, Gaspare, [297]
Graf, Arturo, [408]
Gravina, Vincenzo, [298], [310]
Grazzini, Antonio Maria, [219]
Greene, G. A., translation from D’Annunzio, [405];
his Italian Lyrists of To-Day, [408]
Grossi, Tommaso, [349]
Guarini, Giovanni Battista, Pastor Fido, [234]-[236]
Gubernatis, Angelo de, [411]
Guerrazzi, Francesco Domenico, [391]
Guerrini, Olindo, [407]
Guerzoni, Giuseppe, [411]
Guicciardini, Francesco, his life, [164]-[166];
history of his times, [166], [167];
miscellaneous writings, [168], [169]
Guidi, Alessandro, [285]
Guidiccioni, Guido, [191], [192]
Guinicelli, Guido, [15]
Guittone di Arezzo, [13], [14]
Homeric epic, probable genesis of, [154], [155]
Howells, W. H., translation from Giusti by, [367]
Hunt, Leigh, translations by, [78], [205], [235];
on Pulci, [130];
on Tasso’s Aminta, [233]
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, [108]
Ippolito d’Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, [141]
Jacopino de’ Todi, [21]
Jacopo da Lentino, [8]
Jacopo Ortis, [338], [339]
Lanzi, Luigi, [296]
Latini, Brunetto, [21], [22]
Laura, Petrarch’s innamorata, [55], [67]-[73]
Lee, Vernon [Miss Violet Paget], [280], [297], [307], [309], [392]
Leo X., Pope, [142], [158], [165], [175]
Leonora d’Este, sister of the Duke of Ferrara, [241]
Leopardi, Giacomo, his commentary on Petrarch, [81];
his Paralipomeni, [210];
biography, [354]-[357];
as philosopher, [357], [358];
as poet, [359]-[362];
his prose works, [362], [363];
as moralist, [363], [364]
Leti, Gregorio, [269], [270]
Lippi, Lorenzo, [209]
Lorenzo de’ Medici, his poetry and patronage of literature, [113]-[116]
Luigi d’Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, [240]
Macgregor, Major, translation from Petrarch by, [58]
Machiavelli, Niccoló, his life, [157]-[159];
his Prince, [159]-[161];
Discourses on Livy’s Decades, [161];
History of Florence, [162], [163];
his poems, [203];
his comedies, [231]
Maffei, Scipione, Marquis, [295], [315]
Magno, Celio, [198]
Mamiani, Terenzio, [379]
Mandragola, La, [231]
Manzoni, Alessandro, life and character, [342]-[344];
lyrical poetry, [345];
dramas, [346];
I Promessi Sposi, [348], [349]
Marini, Giovanni Battista, [273]-[275]
Marini, Giuseppe Ambrogio, [287]
Marradi, Giovanni, [408]
Massuccio Salernitano, [216]
Mazzini, Giuseppe, [370]-[374]
Mazzuchelli, Giovanni Maria, [295]
Meli, Giovanni, [301], [302]
Menzini, Benedetto, [285]
Merope, [315]
Mestica, Giovanni, commentator on Petrarch, [74], [80], [379]
Metastasio, Pietro, biography, [310]-[312];
works and literary characteristics, [312]-[315]
Micali, Giuseppe, [382]
Michael Angelo, as a poet, [197]
Mie Prigioni, Le, [351]
Milton, compared with Dante, [49], [50];
indebtedness to Sannazaro, [187];
study of Italian models, [199];
on the decay of Italian literature in
his time, [238];
influence of Tasso on his versification, [245];
compared with Tasso, [248], [249]
Molière, [323], [324]
Molza, Francesco Maria, [189], [190]
Mondo Creato, Il, [245]
Montanelli, Giuseppe, [384]
Montemagno, Bonaccorso da, [102]
Monti, Vincenzo, life and works, [333]-[337];
a reviver of Dante, [344]
Morgante Maggiore, Il, [128]-[131]
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, [295]
Napoleon, the true founder of Italian unity, [353]
Nardi, Jacopo, [172]
Navagero, Andrea, [172]
Negri, Ada, [408]
Nencioni, Enrico, [411]
Niccolini, Giovanni Battista, [350]
Nicholas V., Pope, [112]
Niebuhr, [376]
Nievo, Ippolito, [391]
Nolhac, Pierre de, Pétrarque et l’Humanisme, [65]
Novellino, Il, [85]
Ojetti, Ugo, [325], [412]
Ongaro, Francesco dall’, [387]
Opera, the, [313], [314]
Ophelia, [124]
Orfeo, [233]
Orlando Furioso, [143]-[151]
Orlando Innamorato, [132]-[138]
Ottonieri, Filippo, pseudonym of Leopardi, [364]
Ovid, [145]
Pallavicino, Cardinal Sforza, [267], [268]
Palmieri, Matteo, [101]
Panizzi, Antonio, [11], [129], [130], [138], [139], [143]
Panzacchi, Enrico, [408]
Parini, Giuseppe, [299]-[301]
Paruta, Pietro, [174], [175]
Pascoli, Giuseppe, [408]
Pastor Fido, Il, [234], [235]
Paterno, Lodovico, [203]
Patmore, Coventry, [97], [148], [403]
Paul III., Pope, [175], [237]
Paul V., Pope, [267]
Petrarca, Francesco, biography, [53]-[61];
his Latin poetry, [61]-[63];
other Latin writings, [63], [64];
epistles, [64], [65];
classical scholarship, [65];
his passion for Laura, [66]-[73];
his Canzoniere, [73]-[79];
his character, [79], [80]
Pellico, Silvio, [351]
Piccolomini, Alessandro, [181]
Pindemonte, Ippolito, his sonnet on Petrarch’s Laura, [72];
his life and writings, [341], [342]
Pius II., Pope [Enea Silvio Piccolomini], [105]
Pius IV., Pope, [237]
Placci, Carlo, [409]
Pletho, Gemistus, [111]
Poliziano, Angelo, his poetry and scholarship, [116]-[119];
his Orfeo, [227], [233]
Polo, Marco, [105]
Pontano, Giovanni, [107], [108]
Porto, Luigi da, [217]
Prati, Giovanni, [387], [388]
Principe, Il, [158]-[161]
Promessi Sposi, I, [348], [349]
Provençal literature, [4]-[6]
Pulci, Luca, [121]
Pulci, Luigi, his Morgante Maggiore, [128]-[131]
Ranieri, Antonio, [356]
Rapisardi, Mario, [408]
Rappresentazione Sacra, [226]
Reali di Francia, I, [128]
Redi, Francesco, [281], [282]
Reeve, Henry, [81]
Ridella, Franco, [357]
Romagnosi, Giovanni Domenico, [378]
Rosa, Salvator, [286]
Roscoe, William, [189], [196]
Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio, [378]
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, translations by, [7], [8], [9], [15], [19], [20], [22], [34], [95], [100], [102]
Rossetti, Gabriel, [386], [387]
Rossi, J. V. [Nicius Erythræus], [269], [277], [287]
Rousseau, [329]
Rucellai, Giovanni, [202]
Sabadino degli Arienti, [217]
Sacchetti, Franco, [102], [214], [215]
Sade, Abbé de, his theory respecting Petrarch’s Laura, [68]-[71]
Sannazaro, Jacopo, his life, [122];
his Arcadia, [123], [124];
his Latin and Italian poetry, [187]
Sarpi, Pietro, [267], [268]
Savonarola, Girolamo, [121]
Secchia Rapita, La, [208], [209]
Senuccio del Bene, [101]
Sepolcri, I, [339]
Serao, Matilda, [409]
Settembrini, Luigi, [124], [219], [243], [274], [344]
Sewall, Frank, translation from Carducci, [401]
Shakespeare, Othello, [219];
Measure for Measure, [219], [229];
Timon of Athens, [230];
sonnets, [255]
Shelley, [17], [27], [35], [41], [144], [360]
Sicilian octave, the, [10]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [124], [262]
Sixtus V., Pope, [270]
Solerti, [243]
Song of Roland, [128]
Sonnet, the, [9], [284]
Spenser, [134], [146], [329], [403]
Speroni, Sperone, [229]
Staël, Madame de, her Corinne, [333], [354]
Stampa, Gaspara, [195]
Stigliani, Tommaso, [275]
Straparola, his Notti Piacevoli, [220]
Swinburne, quoted, [373]
Symonds, J. A., cited, [26], [44], [48], [106], [118], [190], [197], [232], [234], [260], [309], [323], [414];
translations by, [120], [265]
Tansillo, Luigi, his life and poems, [195]-[197]
Tasso, Bernardo, his Amadigi, [152];
his sonnets, [191];
his misfortunes, [239]
Tasso, Torquato, his Rinaldo, [152];
Torrismondo, [229];
Aminta, [233], [234];
his life, [238]-[246];
Jerusalem Delivered, [246]-[254];
minor poems, [254], [255];
his dialogues, [266];
his sonnet to Stigliani, [275];
his patriotic feeling, [352]
Tassoni, Alessandro, [208], [209]
Telesio, Bernardo, [260]
Teseide, La, [91], [92]
Testa, Giovanni Battista, [381]
Testi, Fulvio, [279], [280]
Tiraboschi, Girolamo, [295], [296]
Tomlinson, C., [81]
Tommaseo, Niccoló, [384], [385]
Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio, his Italia Liberata, [153], [154];
his Sophonisba, [228]
Troya, Carlo, [382], [383]
Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims, [127]
Uberti, Fazio degli, [99], [100]
Valla, Lorenzo, [111]
Valle, Pietro della, [271]
Vanini, Giulio Cesare, [265]
Varchi, Benedetto, [172]
Vasari, Giorgio, his lives of Italian artists, [176], [177]
Verga, Giovanni, [410]
Verri, Alessandro, [303]
Vico, Giovanni Battista, [290], [291]
Villani, Giovanni, [104]
Villari, Pasquale, on Guicciardini, [167], [168];
his writings, [411]
Vita Nuova, La, [32]-[34]
Wells, C., [215]
Whitman, Walt, and Carducci, [401]
Wordsworth, [200], [277], [402]
Zanella, Giacomo, [389]-[391]
Zappi, Faustina, [299]
Zappi, Felice, [298]
Zeno, Apostolo, [310]
Zuccoli, Luciano, [409]

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