Letizia Panizza is senior lecturer in Italian at Royal Holloway College, University of London. She is a contributor to The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (1996) on Italian humanists and on the fifteenth century. In Women''s Studies she has published a critical edition of Arcangela Tarabotti''s Che le donne siano della spezie degli uomini (Women are no less rational than men) (1994). She is also the translator and editor of Tarabotti''s Paternal Tyranny (2000), and the editor of Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (1999). She is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction Letizia Panizza
Part I. The Renaissance, Counter-Reformation and Seventeenth Century: 1. Letter writing, 1350-1650 Maria Luisa Doglio
2. The fifteenth century: i. Humanism Letizia Panizza, ii. Vernacular poetry and mystery plays Judith Bryce
3. Lyric poetry Giovanna Rabitti
4. Fiction, 1560-1650 Virginia Cox
5. Polemical prose writing 1500-1650 Letizia Panizza
6. Religious and devotional writing, 1400-1500 Gabriella Zarri
Part II. The Enlightenment and Restoration: 7. Eighteenth-century literature Luisa Ricaldone
8. Travel writing Ricciarda Ricorda
9. Journalism, 1750-1850 Verina Jones
10. Literary critics and scholars, 1700-1850 Adriana Chemello
Part III. The Risorgimento and Modern Italy, 1850-2000: 11. Journalists and essayists, 1850-1915 Silvana Patriarca
12. The novel, 1870-1920 Lucienne Kroha
13. The popular novel, 1850-1920 Anna Laura Lepschy
14. Futurism and fascism, 1914-45 Lucia Re
15. The novel, 1945-65 Ann Hallamore Caesar
16. The novel, 1965-2000 Adalgisa Giorgio
17. Poetry, 1870-2000 Catherine O'Brien
18 Theatre and cinema, 1945-2000 Aine O'Healy
19. Aesthetics and critical theory Sharon Wood
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