Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Hainsworth, Peter; Robey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199231796 ISBN 13: 9780199231799

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2012

Synopsis

This Very Short Introduction examines Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history

About this title

About the Author

Peter Hainsworth lectured in Italian at Hull and Kent Universities before moving to Oxford in 1979. He remained there until he retired in 2003. He has published widely on medieval and modern Italian literature, including Petrarch the Poet (1986). He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. His translations of selected works of Petrarch were published as The Essential Petrarch (Hackett Publishing) in November 2010. Peter Hainsworth and David Robey co-edited the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (2002).



David Robey lectured in Italian at Oxford University before becoming Professor of Italian at Manchester and then Reading University. He has published on 15th-century Italian humanism, language, and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, and the computer analysis of literature and modern critical theory. He is the author of a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' (OUP, 2000), and an extensive data resource on Sound and Metre in Italian Narrative Verse. Peter Hainsworth and David Robey co-edited the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199231796
• ISBN 13: 9780199231799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127