2 The Purpose of Literary Criticism: Francesco De Sanctis’s (Anti-) Petrarchism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: Whole or Nothing 1
6. 1 Primi and Ultimi: Petrarch’s Corpus 29
7. 2 The Purpose of Literary Criticism: Francesco De Sanctis’s (Anti-) Petrarchism 80
8. 3 “Do not grow weary of reading, for I do not grow weary of writing”: Goldoni’s Reform of Italian Literature 143
9. 4 The Vichian Resurrection of Commedia dell’Arte: Reciprocating Modernity between Italy and France 200
10. 5 Remembering Is Not Thinking: Croce, Gramsci, and Italian Intellectual Autobiography 256
11. Conclusion: The Last Renaissance Man 313
12. Index 331