Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and fifty-two others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy.
This is a """"first reader"""" in the sense of its introduction to Italian literature from the 1300s to the 1920s. A solid background in Italian grammar is necessary for the fullest appreciation of the original text. The excerpts are unadulterated, not retold or simplified. Readers can sample the works of men renowned for other talents, such as Michelangelo and Galileo, and discover the original language of The Decameron, The Prince, and even Pinocchio. This self-contained anthology can be used with or without an instructor. It will thrill anyone seeking a fast-paced survey of a vital body of literature from one of the world's greatest cultural legacies.
By:
Stanley Appelbaum
Translated by:
Stanley Applebaum
Imprint: Dover
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 215mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780486465357
ISBN 10: 0486465357
Series: Dual Language Book
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 11 June 2008
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
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
