Embraces the whole of Italian literature, from the early thirteenth century to the present, including historical writing, travel writing, theatre, and philosophy. (2,400 entries)
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1848
The most celebrated and widespread of the 19th-c. European revolutions proved also a crucial turning point in the Italian Risorgimento .
1968
was the year of protest par excellence. As in 1848 , social revolt spread through the peninsula while also taking place in other countries, as movements from
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900
(1926 -- 9 ). Literary journal founded in Rome by Curzio Malaparte and Massimo Bontempelli , though Malaparte quickly lost
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Academies
in the post-classical sense began in the 15th c. as another aspect of the humanists' discovery of the Graeco-Roman past.
Acciaiuoli
Leading Florentine mercantile and banking family during the 14th and 15th c., who assumed a major role in the republic's political life,
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Donato Acciaiuoli
(1429 -- 78 ). Humanist and member of the ancient Florentine noble family, who prospered politically under Piero and Lorenzo
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Claudio Achillini
(1574 -- 1640 ). A significant figure in the history of Baroque poetry, he belonged to a dynasty of academics, and was himself a law professor
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Adone
(1623 ). Marino's most ambitious work, a vast epic without feats of arms, in twenty cantos of ottava rima
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Advertising
The earliest examples of advertising in Italy date back to Roman times: inscriptions on the walls of premises in Pompei illustrated the wares or
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Africa
Petrarch's Latin epic in classical hexa-meters which he began in 1338 -- 41 but never completed, books 4 and 9 still showing many lacunae.
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Antonio Abati
( c. 1600 -- 67 ). Satirical poet in the Baroque style from Gubbio.
Megliore Degli Abati
see Siculo-Tuscan Poets .
Giuseppe Cesare Abba
(1838 -- 1910 ). Novelist , poet , and patriot . Born in Cairo Montenotte near Savona, he abandoned literary and artistic studies
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Nicola Abbagnano
see existentialism .
Antonio Abbondanti
( c. 1600 -- 1641 ). Author of one of the liveliest burlesque poems of the 17th c.
Abbondio, Don
the weak-willed village priest in Manzoni's I promessi sposi .
Yehudah Abravanel
see LeoneEbreo .
