INTRODUCTION.

DANTE.

PETRARCH.

BOCCACCIO AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

WRITERS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

ARIOSTO.

POETS CONTEMPORARY WITH ARIOSTO.

MACHIAVELLI AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

BERNARDO AND TORQUATO TASSO.

MARINO, CHIABRERA, FILICAIA AND OTHER POETS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

GALILEO AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

METASTASIO.

PARINI.

ALFIERI.

OTHER POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

PROSE WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

LEOPARDI.

MANZONI.

SILVIO PELLICO.

POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

PROSE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CONCLUSION.

THE END.