Italian literature
Subtitle: the dominant themes
By: Christopher Cairns.
Series: Comparative literature series
Publisher: David & Charles; Barnes & Noble
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Newton Abbot [Eng.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Italian literature -- History and criticism
Description: The Italian heritage (Dante Alighieri, Petrarca, Boccaccio) - the Political Concience (Machiavelli, Pascoli, Calvino, Leopardi); Social Change (Pirandello, Di Lampedusa, Dramma Barghese) - The Catholic Concience (St Francis, Dante Alighieri, the Counter-reformation); The dissection of man : the 20th century (Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Moravia, Ginsberg).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 178-186.
Includes index.