Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology. Ranging from the 14th to the 20th centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and 52 others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy.
Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology. Ranging from the 14th to the 20th centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and 52 others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy.
Introduction 1. Storybook (ca. 1300): 3 stories 2. Dante (1265-1321): The Divine Comedy 3. Petrarca (1304-1374): 5 sonnets 4. Boccaccio (1313-1375): Decameron 5. Sacchetti (ca. 1330-1400): The Three Hundred Tales 6. The Little Flowers of Saint Francis (ca. 1390) 7. Ser Giovanni Fiorentino: Pecorone (ca. 1400) 8. Pulci (1432-1484): Morgante 9. Boiardo (1441-1494): Orlando in Love 10. Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492): 2 lyric poems 11. Poliziano (1454-1494): 2 lyric poems 12. Sannazaro (1455-1530): Arcadia 13. Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince 14. Bembo (1470-1547): The Asolo Discourses 15. Ariosto (1474-1533): The Frenzy of Orlando 16. Michelangelo (1475-1564): 2 sonnets 17. Castiglione (1478-1529): The Courtier 18. Guicciardini (1483-1540): Florentine Histories & History of Italy 19. Bandello (1484-1561): Stories 20. Da Porto (1485-1529): "History ... of Two Noble Sweethearts" 21. Straparola (ca. 1490-ca. 1557): The Pleasant Nights 22. Cellini (1500-1571): Autobiography 23. Della Casa (1503-1556): Galateo 24. Cinzio (1504-1573): The Hundred Tales 25. Vasari (1511-1574): The Lives 26. Stampa (ca. 1523-1554): 3 sonnets 27. Tasso (1544-1595): Jerusalem Delivered 28. Bruno (1548-1600): Cause, Principle, and Unity 29. Galileo (1564-1642): The Assayer 30. Campanella (1568-1639): The City of the Sun 31. Marino (1569-1625): Adonis 32. Vico (1668-1744): The New Science 33. Metastasio (1698-1782): 2 sonnets 34. Gozzi (1713-1786): 2 sonnets 35. Parini (1729-1799): sonnet 36. Alfieri (1749-1803): 3 sonnets 37. Monti (1754-1828): 2 sonnets 38. Foscolo (1778-1827): 5 sonnets 39. Manzoni (1785-1873): The Betrothed 40. Pellico (1789-1854): My Prisons 41. Leopardi (1798-1837): 2 lyric poems 42. De Sanctis (1817-1883): History of Italian Literature 43. Collodi (1826-1890): The Adventures of Pinocchio 44. Nievo (1831-1861): The Confessions of an Italian 45. Carducci (1835-1907): 2 lyric poems and a prose passage 46. Verga (1840-1922): Master Gesualdo 47. Boito (1842-1918): "The Black Chess Bishop" 48. Fogazzaro (1842-1911): Malombra 49. Pascoli (1855-1912): 3 lyric poems 50. Svero (1861-1928): Old Age 51. D'Annunzio (1863-1938): The Innocent One & verse 52. Croce (1866-1952): Breviary of Esthetics 53. Pirandello (1867-1936): The Late Mattia Pascal 54. Deledda (1871-1936): Reeds in the Wind 55. Saba (1883-1957): 4 lyric poems
Stanley Appelbaum served for decades as Dover's Editor in Chief until his retirement in 1996. He continues to work as a selector, compiler, editor, and translator of literature in a remarkable range of languages that includes Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian.
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