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100 1 _aCarducci, Giosuè,
_d1835-1907
245 1 0 _aPagine di storia letteraria
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-10
508 _aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aPagine di storia letteraria by Giosuè Carducci is a collection of literary-historical essays written in the late 19th century. The volume gathers incisive critical prose that surveys classical antiquity, the medieval world, and modern Italian letters with scholarly rigor and civic ardor. It moves from Virgil and Roman law to troubadour poetry, medieval poetics, and the national development of Italian literature, addressing cultivated readers and students alike. The opening of the book presents an editorial note explaining that these selections aim to offer the essence of Carducci’s literary thought—clear, authoritative, and largely unencumbered by notes—useful to both learned readers and students of literary history. It then launches into major essays: a public oration on Virgil that links the poet’s Mantuan roots, pastoral melancholy, Georgics as a civic hymn to agriculture, and the Aeneid as an epic reconciling Italy, Rome, and empire, closing with a modern exhortation to uplift rural life; a historical address on the Roman law tradition that traces the passage of legal learning from Ravenna to Bologna and the rise of the university as a democratic, international corporation of students and masters; a study of Jaufré Rudel that recounts the “love from afar,” argues its historicity, situates the poet among the earliest troubadours, and illustrates the ethics and style of courtly lyric; a brief on medieval “tragedy” and “comedy” showing how the Middle Ages redefined ancient forms and misunderstood classical theater; and the start of a discourse on the national evolution of Italian literature, beginning with year‑1000 apocalyptic fears and the subsequent rebirth of communes, churches, and civic learning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBologna: Zanichelli, 1920
653 _aLiterature -- History and criticism
653 _aItalian literature -- History and criticism
700 1 _aLipparini, Giuseppe,
_d1877-1951
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/paginedistoriale00carduoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77906
999 _c118626
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