Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7) / Italian Literature, Part 2

John Addington Symonds

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 677 pages

A collection of critical essays from John Addington Symonds's multi-volume study of the Italian Renaissance, devoted to Italian literature. This second part considers poets and works such as Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, exploring romance, irony, and the culture of the Cinquecento. It is worth hearing for its wide-ranging, readable survey of Renaissance literary life.

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