A Manual of Italian Literature

by Francis Henry Cliffe

A Manual of

Italian Literature

BY

FRANCIS HENRY CLIFFE

LONDON: JOHN MACQUEEN

1896

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CONTENTS.

	I.	[INTRODUCTION]	1
	II.	[DANTE]	2
	III.	[PETRARCH]	24
	IV.	[BOCCACCIO AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY]	33
	V.	[WRITERS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY]	40
	VI.	[ARIOSTO]	45
	VII.	[POETS CONTEMPORARY WITH ARIOSTO]	55
	VIII.	[MACHIAVELLI AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY]	62
	IX.	[BERNARDO AND TORQUATO TASSO]	74
	X.	[MARINO, CHIABRERA, FILICAIA, AND OTHER POETS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY]	110
	XI.	[GALILEO AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY]	133
	XII.	[CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY]	147
	XIII.	[METASTASIO]	151
	XIV.	[PARIMI]	167
	XV.	[ALFIERI]	174
	XVI.	[OTHER POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY]	182
	XVII.	[PROSE WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY]	190
	XVIII.	[CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY]	201
	XIX.	[LEOPARDI]	208
	XX.	[MANZONI]	258
	XXI.	[SILVIO PELLICO]	266
	XXII.	[POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY]	274
	XXIII.	[PROSE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY]	280
	XXIV.	[CONCLUSION]	283
		[INDEX]	285

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