Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... saving grace of humor ("smiling academic irony"), sanity and freedom of mind, lucidity and precision of expression. Melville B. Anderson. Stale University of Iowa. THE SONNET. Morfologia del Sonetto nei secoli xiii e xiv. L. Biadene. Studjdi Filologia Romanza, Fasc. 10. One of the most interesting features in the scientific movement of the present time is the appearance of Italy as an important factor. Her political unification has resulted in a concentration of talent and in a renewal of mental energy. While the effects of this activity are seen in many branches of learning, they are particularly marked in the domain of philological and linguistic research, as might be expected both from the temperament and the history of the Italian people. The importance of the reviews in this field now published on Italian soil and in the Italian language is only exceeded by that of the German periodicals. Consequently the knowledge of Italian is becoming indispensable to the scholar, and this is only the more evident when the statement is applied to Romance studies. Of names of the first rank in this department Italy has already Ascoli, D'ancona, Monaci, Mussafia, Rajna,--leaving aside Carducci as not falling into the purely scientific list,--and many younger men, who bid fair to be worthy successors of these pioneers. Among journals she offers the doughty Propugnatore; now entering on a maturity of prosperity; the Archivio Glottologico, which renders valuable services to dialect study; the Giornale Storico dc I hi Letteratura Italiana for literary history only, and the Studj di Filologia Romanza, whose parts, appearing as monographs, embrace both philology and literature. This growth of productiveness has been accompanied by a notable improvement...
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