Pagine di storia letteraria by Giosuè Carducci
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Pagine 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.)
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| Author | Carducci, Giosuè, 1835-1907 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Lipparini, Giuseppe, 1877-1951 |
| Title | Pagine di storia letteraria |
| Original Publication | Bologna: Zanichelli, 1920. |
| Credits | Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Literature -- History and criticism |
| Subject | Italian literature -- History and criticism |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77906 |
| Release Date | Feb 10, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 965 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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