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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

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