Italian literature

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Introduction
Early vernacular literature
- The influence of France
- The Sicilian school
- The Tuscan poets
- The new style
- Comic verse
- Religious poetry
- Prose
The 14th century
- Dante (1265–1321)
- Petrarch (1304–74)
- Boccaccio (1313–75)
- Popular literature and romances
- Religious and historical literature
The Renaissance
- The age of humanism
- The rise of vernacular literature
- Political, historical, biographical, and moral literature
- Poetry
- Drama
- Narrative
17th-century literature
- Poetry and prose
- Music drama and the Accademia dell’Arcadia
Developments in the 18th century
- Reform of the tragic theatre
- Goldoni’s reform of comedy
- The world of learning
- The Enlightenment (Illuminismo)
Literary trends of the 19th century
- Romanticism
- Opposing movements
- The Risorgimento and after
- The veristi and other narrative writers
The 20th century
- Gabriele D’Annunzio’s nationalism
- Benedetto Croce’s criticism
- Literary trends before World War I
- The “return to order”
- Luigi Pirandello
- The Hermetic movement
- Social commitment and the new realism
- Other writings
- The end of the century
  - Poetry after World War II
  - Experimentalism and the new avant-garde
  - Dialect poetry
  - Theatre
  - Women writers
  - Fiction at the turn of the 21st century
  - Facing the new millennium

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