Italian Poetry to 1800 (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
Poetry and literature in the Italian vernacular, the common language that sprang from the
ashes of Latin, arose in Italy around the beginning of the thirteenth century and soon displayed
itself in literary works of major importance, such as Dante’s La divina commedia (c. 1320; The
Divine Comedy, 1802), Petrarch’s
Canzoniere (manuscript 1374, pb. 1470; Rhymes, 1976), and [The entire page is 12513 words long]
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