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Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian."Italian literature," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

First page of an early printed edition of Dante's Divine Comedy with illuminated first letter and border decorations. — Dante's Divine Comedy

Medieval (1200-1400)

Vita Nuova (The New Life), 1295 by Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy, 1308-1321 by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Decameron, 1351 by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by James McMullen Rigg

Canzoniere, 14th century, by Petrarch, 19th century translator not mentioned
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, by Marco Polo, translated by Henry Yule

Humanism and Renaissance (1400-1650)

The Prince, 1513 by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prince, translated 1908 by William K. Marriott
  - The Annotated Prince, translated 1908 by William K. Marriott, annotated by Wikisource
- The Prince, translated 1910 by Ninian Hill Thomson
Orlando Furioso, 1516 by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by William Stewart Rose
The Art of War, 1521 by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by Henry Neville
Amyntas, 1573, a play by Torquato Tasso
A description of the methods adopted by the Duke Valentino when murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini, by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by William K. Marriott
Discourses on Livy, by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by Henry Neville
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Jean Paul Richter
"Chapter 9: Italy and Germany", 1906 in The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert J. C. Grierson. In Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. Periods of European Literature. vol. 7, pp. 325-352.
Discourse Concerning the Natation of Bodies, 1612 by Galileo Galilei, translated by Thomas Salusbury
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, 1638 by Galileo Galilei, translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio
Guarini untitled verse, by Giovanni Battista Guarini

Classicism and Pre-Romanticism (1650-1815)

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments, 1764 by Cesare Beccaria, 18th century translator not mentioned

Romanticism and Realism (1815-1915)

My Ten Years' Imprisonment, 1832 by Silvio Pellico, translated by Thomas Roscoe
Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, 1818-1837 by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Frederick Townsend
To Arms, 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi
The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema, 1863 by Ludovico di Varthema, translated by John Winter Jones
Holland and its People, 1874 by Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Caroline Tilton
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1883 by Carlo Collodi, translated by Carol Della Chiesa
The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, translated by Mary Alice Murray (1892)
The Child of Pleasure, 1889 by Gabriele d'Annunzio, translated by Georgina Harding and Arthur Symons
Anarchy, 1891 by Errico Malatesta, translated by Freedom Press (London)
The Saint, 1905 by Antonio Fogazzaro, translated by Mary Prichard Agnetti
Poems of Italy: selections from the Odes of Giosue Carducci, 1906 by Giosue Carducci, translated by Mary Arms Edmonds
Characters and Events of Roman History, 1909 by Guglielmo Ferrero, translated by Frances Lance Ferrero
The Women of the Caesars, 1911 by Guglielmo Ferrero, translated by C. Gauss

Decadentism and Contemporary (1915-Present)

Paulo Ucello, 1915 by Giovanni Pascoli, translated by Romola Piggott
The Ruin of the Ancient Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity, 1921 by Guglielmo Ferrero
Four and Twenty Minds, 1922 by Giovanni Papini, translated by Ernest Hatch Wilkins

Reference

Italian Literature as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

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