Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 / 2008-07-07 00:00:00

EBOOK, MODERN ITALIAN POETS ***


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MODERN ITALIAN POETS
ESSAYS AND VERSIONS
BY
W. D. HOWELLS
WITH PORTRAITS


CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION
ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS
GIUSEPPE PARINI
VITTORIO ALFIERI
VINCENZO MONTI
UGO FOSCOLO
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
SILVIO PELLICO
TOMMASO GROSSI
LUIGI CARRER
GIOVANNI BERCHET
GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI
GIACOMO LEOPARDI
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
FRANCESCO DALL' ONGARO
GIOVANNI PRATI
ALEARDO ALEARDI
GIULIO CARCANO
ARNALDO FUSINATO
LUIGI MERCANTINI
CONCLUSION

PORTRAITS.
VITTORIO ALFIERI
VINCENZO MONTI
UGO FOSCOLO
ALESSANDRO MANZONI
TOMMASO GROSSI
GIAMBATTISTA NICCOLINI
GIACOMO LEOPARDI
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
FRANCESCO DALL' ONGARO
GIOVANNI PRATI
ALEARDO ALEARDI


INTRODUCTION

This book has grown out of studies begun twenty years ago in Italy,
and continued fitfully, as I found the mood and time for them, long
after their original circumstance had become a pleasant memory. If any
one were to say that it did not fully represent the Italian poetry
of the period which it covers chronologically, I should applaud his
discernment; and perhaps I should not contend that it did much more
than indicate the general character of that poetry.
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