An Anthology Of Italian Authors From Cavalcanti To Fogazzo 1270 1907 With Biographical Sketches

Author : Rossiter Johnson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330887653
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Italian Authors written by Rossiter Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Anthology of Italian Authors: From Cavalcanti to Fogazzaro (1270-1907) With Biographical Sketches No literature is fully and fairly represented by its great authors alone Nor are the great authors themselves fully represented unless the reader is enabled to make some acquaintance with their countrymen of less renown that have sung the smaller (and sometimes sweeter) songs of love, home, or heroism, or have preserved in genre the everyday life of their own times. An educator's pupils are a part of his works, and the minor authors are nearly all pupils of the schools founded by those "Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time." That would be an imperfect presentation of English poetry which should take no notice of Collins, Gray, Chatterton, Hood, Mrs. Hemans, or Charles Lamb; and similarly the editors of this series would perform an incomplete service to Italian letters should they fail to give the reader something from the works of Cardinal Bembo, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Vittoria Colonna, Gas-para Stampa, Carducci, Verga, Fogazzaro, Ada Negri and others, who have a permanent though less conspicuous place in the literature of their country. But this volume is not drawn entirely from minor authors. A few whose rank is higher are represented here because the scope of the series, or the peculiarity of their work, prevented us from assigning to them an entire volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.