CHAPTER 42. Foscolo and Other Waiters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Preface vii
4. Contents ix
5. INTRODUCTION. The Backgrounds of Italian Literature 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Early Folk Literature and Minstrelsy 9
7. CHAPTER 2. St. Francis of Assisi 13
8. CHAPTER 3. Frederick the Second and His Circle 17
9. CHAPTER 4. Poetry of the Latter Half of the Thirteenth Century 23
10. CHAPTER 5. Prose of the Latter Half of the Thirteenth Century 36
11. CHAPTER 6. Dante in Florence 41
12. CHAPTER 7. Dante in Exile 50
13. CHAPTER 8. The Divine Comedy 59
14. CHAPTER 9. Contemporaries of Dante 73
15. CHAPTER 10. Petrarch 80
16. CHAPTER 11. Boccaccio 101
17. CHAPTER 12. Contemporaries of Petrarch and Boccaccio 113
18. CHAPTER 13. Writers of the Late Fourteenth Century 117
19. CHAPTER 14. The Militant Humanists 123
20. CHAPTER 15. Contemporaries of the Militant Humanists 131
21. CHAPTER 16. Lorenzo de’ Medici 136
22. CHAPTER 17. Florentine Humanists 148
23. CHAPTER 18. Luigi Pulci and Other Florentine Writers 158
24. Chapter 19. Neapolitan, Ferrarese, and Other Writers 167
25. CHAPTER 20. Bembo 177
26. CHAPTER 21. Ariosto 185
27. CHAPTER 22. Michelangelo and Other Poets 196
28. CHAPTER 23. Mackiavelli and Guicciaraini 208
29. CHAPTER 24. Castiglione and Other Prose Writers 226
30. CHAPTER 25. Comedy and Tragedy 237
31. CHAPTER 26. Poetry of the Mid–Sixteenth Century 244
32. CHAPTER 27. Prose of the Mid–Sixteenth Century 251
33. CHAPTER 28. The Pastoral Play and the Commedia dell’arte 263
34. CHAPTER 29. Torquato Tasso 268
35. CHAPTER 30. Giordano Bruno 282
36. CHAPTER 31. The Drama in the Late Sixteenth Century 289
37. CHAPTER 32. Marino and Other Poets 292
38. CHAPTER 33. Campanella 299
39. CHAPTER 34. Galileo and Other Prose Writers 307
40. CHAPTER 35. Early Opera 314
41. CHAPTER 36. A Stagnant Interval 319
42. CHAPTER 37. Metastasio and Other Arcadians 324
43. CHAPTER 38. Vico 334
44. CHAPTER 39. Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi 342
45. CHAPTER 40. Parini and Other Writers 355
46. CHAPTER 41. Alfieri 365
47. CHAPTER 42. Foscolo and Other Waiters 376
48. CHAPTER 43. Manzoni 388
49. CHAPTER 44. Leopardi 399
50. CHAPTER 45. Contemporaries of Manzoni and Leopardi 411
51. CHAPTER 46. Mazzini 420
52. CHAPTER 47. Contemporaries of Mazzini 429
53. CHAPTER 48. Carducci and Other Poets 436
54. CHAPTER 49. De Sanctis, Verga, and Other Writers 448
55. CHAPTER 50. Pascoli and Other Poets 460
56. CHAPTER 51. and Other Writers 470
57. CHAPTER 52. Writers of the Twentieth Century 478
58. CHAPTER 53. The Literature of the Republic 496
59. APPENDIX A LIST OF ADDITIONAL WRITERS A LIST OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND BOOKS IN ENGLISH DEALING WITH ITALIAN LITERATURE A CHRONOLOGICAL CHART INDEX
60. A LIST OF ADDITIONAL WRITERS 527
61. A LIST OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND BOOKS IN ENGLISH DEALING WITH ITALIAN LITERATURE 529
62. A CHRONOLOGICAL CHART 549
63. INDEX 561