# Italian literature
## Presentation

As a first step to build up the course of Italian literature on Wikiversity, a list of the major Italian Authors of the various historical periods is offered here, with connections to their articles on Wikipedia (and other Wiki Projects). In fact, on Wikipedia already exists good information about these Italian Authors and links to their works. This information offers a basic overview of the Italian literature. Later on, a narrative will be added to better describe the various Authors, and their cultural and historical background.
The students who can read the Italian language, can also check this same course, subdivided in three sections, in the Italian wikiversità: it:Materia:Letteratura_italiana_I

## Italian Literature

Italian Literature is usually divided into six major periods:
* Medieval, from 1200 to about 1400
* Humanism and Renaissance, from about 1400 to about 1550
* Baroque, from 1550 to about 1700
* Classicism and Pre-Romanticism, from about 1700 to 1815
* Romanticism and Realism, from 1815 to about 1915
* Decadentism and Contemporary, from 1915 to the present
For a general introduction:
* History of Italian Literature (up to 1900), textbook on Google Books
* w:Italian Literature Article on wikipedia.

## Medieval Period (from 1200 to about 1400 a.D.)

The major Authors and Literary Movements of this period are the following:

### Poetry

* Scuola Siciliana (Sicilian School)
* Dolce Stil Novo (School of the Sweet New Style)
* Brunetto Latini Text of Tesoretto (Italian/English)
* Cecco Angiolieri
* Dante Alighieri
* Folgore da San Gimignano
* Francesco d'Assisi
* Francesco Petrarca
* Giacomo da Lentini
* Guido Cavalcanti Sonnets and Ballate (Italian/English)
* Guido Guinizelli
* Guittone d’Arezzo
* Jacopone da Todi
* Paolo Lanfranchi

### Prose

* Catherine of Siena Dialogue (English)
* Dino Compagni
* Egidio Colonna
* Giovanni Boccaccio
* Giovanni Villani Chronicle (English)
* Rustichello da Pisa The Travels of Marco Polo (English)
* Ristoro d’Arezzo

### Drama

* Albertino Mussato

## Renaissance Period (from 1400 to about 1550 a.D.)

The major Authors of this period are the following:

### Poetry

* Antonio Pucci
* Gian Giorgio Trissino
* Giovanni della Casa
* Giovanni Guidiccioni
* Giovanni Pontano
* Giulia Gonzaga
* Ludovico Ariosto
* Luigi Pulci
* Matteo Boiardo
* Michelangelo Buonarroti
* Poliziano
* Sannazzaro
* Tullia d’Aragona
* Vittoria Colonna

### Prose

* Antonio Cornazzano
* Baldassare Castiglione
* Leon Battista Alberti
* Lorenzo de Medici
* Franco Sacchetti
* Marsilius Ficinus
* Niccolò Machiavelli
* Pietro Aretino
* Pietro Bembo
* Savonarola
* Vespasiano da Bisticci

### Historians

* Benedetto Varchi
* Camillo Porzio
* Francesco Guicciardini Ricordi, English text ]
* Giambattista Andriani
* Gino Capponi
* Giorgio Vasari
* Giovanni Villani
* Jacopo Nardi
* Leonardo Bruni

## Baroque Period (from 1550 to about 1700)
### Poetry

* Claudio Achillini
* Giambattista Marino
* Giovanni Francesco Busenello
* Salvator Rosa
* Tassoni

### Prose

* Francesco Redi
* Galileo Galilei
* Giambattista Basile
* Paolo Sarpi
* Paolo Segneri

## Classicism and Pre-romanticism Period (from 1700 to 1815)
### Poetry

* Giacomo Leopardi
* Giuseppe Parini
* Ippolito Pindemonte
* Lorenzo Da Ponte
* Melchiorre Cesarotti
* Pietro Metastasio
* Ugo Foscolo
* Vincenzo Monti

### Prose

* Cesare Beccaria
* Gasparo Gozzi
* Giuseppe Baretti
* Ludovico Antonio Muratori
* Pietro Verri

### Drama

* Carlo Goldoni
* Vittorio Alfieri

### Historiography

* Giambattista Vico

## Romanticism and Realism Period (from 1815 to about 1915)
### Poetry

* Cesare Pascarella
* Giosuè Carducci
* Giovanni Berchet
* Giovanni Pascoli
* Giuseppe Giusti
* Salvatore Di Giacomo

### Prose

* Alessandro Manzoni
* Carlo Collodi
* Edmondo De Amicis
* Emilio Salgari
* Ippolito Nievo
* Giovanni Verga Text of his major novel (in English)
* Giuseppe Cesare Abba
* Giuseppe Garibaldi
* Giuseppe Giacosa
* Grazia Deledda
* Luigi Capuana
* Matilde Serao
* Massimo d’Azeglio
* Niccolò Tommaseo
* Silvio Pellico
* Tommaso Grossi

### Historiography

* Cesare Cantù
* Vincenzo Cuoco

### Miscellaneous

* Antonio Rosmini
* Giuseppe Mazzini
* Vincenzo Gioberti

## Decadentism and Contemporary Period (from about 1915 to Present)
### Poetry

* Ada Negri
* Aldo Palazzeschi
* Andrea Zanzotto
* Cesare Pavese
* Clemente Rebora
* Dino Campana
* Edoardo Sanguineti
* Gabriele D’Annunzio
* Eugenio Montale
* Gesualdo Bufalino
* Giovanni Prati
* Antonio Borgese
* Giuseppe Ungaretti
* Guido Gozzano
* Ignazio Buttitta
* Leonardo Sinisgalli
* Maria Luisa Spaziani
* Mario Luzi
* Piero Jahier
* Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Salvatore Quasimodo
* Ugo Betti
* Umberto Saba
* Vincenzo Cardarelli
* Vittorio Sereni

### Prose

* Alberto Moravia
* Alessandro Baricco
* Antonio Tabucchi
* Beppe Fenoglio
* Benedetto Croce
* Carlo Emilio Gadda
* Carlo Fruttero
* Carlo Levi
* Curzio Malaparte
* Dacia Maraini
* Elsa Morante
* Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
* Franco Lucentini
* Gavino Ledda
* Giorgio Bassani
* Giovanni Arpino
* Giovanni Comisso
* Giovannino Guareschi
* Giuseppe Prezzolini
* Goffredo Parise
* Indro Montanelli
* Italo Calvino
* Leonardo Sciasca
* Luciano De Crescenzo
* Luigi Barzini, Sr.
* Mario Rigoni Stern
* Mario Soldati
* Natalia Ginzburg
* Oriana Fallaci
* Piero Chiara
* Primo Levi
* Riccardo Bacchelli
* Umberto Eco
* Susanna Tamaro
* Vasco Pratolini
* Vittorio Zucconi

### Drama

* Dario Fo
* Luigi Pirandello

### Miscellaneous

* Giovanni Gentile