Chapter XXV: Conclusion

In this History of Italian Literature I have endeavoured, to the best of my ability, to trace its progress and development. That it has progressed, cannot, I think, be denied. Poetry has freed itself from conventionality. Prose has given birth to works which former ages could not even have conceived. Compare the magnificent creations of Gabriele d'Annunzio to the stories of Bandello and the _Novelline_ of MASACCIO. The advance is prodigious. Much, however, remains to be done. Italy has not yet given the world a philosopher so profound as Kant or Schopenhauer, or a tragic poet so great as Sophocles or Shakespeare. There is still room for an Italian Burns, for a really original and striking poet in dialect. The Sicilian GIOVANNI MELI is, perhaps, the nearest approach to such a writer, indeed, he is the most genuine poet that Sicily has ever produced. There is every reason to hope that the free and united Italy of the present will see writers as brilliant as those of the enslaved and divided Italy of the past.

THE END.

INDEX.

A

Addison
Adriani
Alamanni, Luigi
Aleardi
Alexander VII, Pope
Alfieri
Algarotti
Amaltei, the Brothers
Amicis, Edmondo de
Annunzio, Gabriele d'
Ariosto

B

Balbo, Cesare
Bandello
Barett
Bartoli, Daniele
Beccaria
Belcari
Bellotti
Bembo, Cardinal
Bentivoglio, Cardinal
Berchet, Giovanni
Berni, Francesco
Bertola
Bettinelli
Bevilacqua, Cardinal
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccalini, Trajano
Boileau
Bojardo
Boniface VIII, Pope
Borghi, Giuseppe
Botti Binda, Madame Rachele
Browning
Bruno, Giordano
Bunsen
Byron, Lord

C

Campanella
Campbell, Lord
Cantù, Cesare
Caro, Annibal
Carducci, Giosuè
Carlyle
Carrer, Luigi
Casa, Monsignor G. della
Castelvetro
Casti
Castiglione, Baldassarre
Catherine, Saint, of Siena
Cattignano, Giovanni, da
Catullus
Cavalcanti
Cavour
Cesari, Antonio
Cesarotti, Melchiorre
Chaucer
Chiabrera, Gabriele
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Claudian
Clement VII, Pope
Clement VIII, Pope
Clement XI, Pope
Clement XII, Pope
Colonna, Vittoria
Compagni, Dino
Corneille
Cossa, Pietro
Costanzo, Angelo di
Crescimbeni
Crudeli, Tommaso

D

Dante
Dati
Davanzati
Davila
Delfino, Cardinal
Dickens
Dryden
Duse, Eleonora

E

Edwardes, Charles
Eleonora, Princess of Ferrara

F

Fairfax
Filangieri
Filicaia
Firenzuola
Fortiguerra, Niccolò
Foscolo, Ugo
Fracastoro
Frederick the Great
Frugoni

G

Galilei, Galileo
Gambara, Veronica
Garibaldi
Giordana, Tullio
Giordani, Pietro
Giusti, Giuseppe
Goethe
Goldoni, Carlo
Gozzi, Carlo
Gozzi, Gasparo
Grossi, Tommaso
Guarnii, Battista
Guerrini, Olindo
Guicciardini
Guidi, Alessandro
Guinicelli

H

Hallam
Holderness, Lord
Homer
Horace
Huyghens

J

Julius II, Pope

K

Keats, John

L

Latini, Brunetto
Leo X, Pope
Leo XIII, Pope
Leopardi
Lippi, Lorenzo
Lucan
Lucretius

M

Macaulay, Lord
Machiavelli
Maffei, Alessandro
Maffei, Scipione
Magalotti
Maggi, Carlo Maria
Magliabecchi, Antonio
Malaspini, Celio
Malherbe
Manfredi, Eustachio
Manin
Manso
Manzoni, Alessandro
Marchetti
Marchionni, Carlotta
Marino
Maroncelli, Pietro
Mascheroni
Masaccio
Mazzini
Meli, Giovanni
Menzini
Metastasio
Milton
Molière
Montaigne
Montesquieu
Monti
Muratori
Murtola

N

Napoleon
Nardi, Jacopo
Negri, Ada
Nicolini
Niebuhr
Nota, Alberto

P

Pallavicino, Cardinal
Panzacchi, Enrico
Parini, Giuseppe
Pascal
Passavanti, Jacopo
Passeroni, Gian Carlo
Pellico, Silvio
Petrarch
Pindemonte, Ippolito
Pius VI, Pope
Pius VII, Pope
Pius IX, Pope
Platen
Pope, Alexander
Prati, Giovanni
Poliziano, Angelo da
Polo, Marco
Porzio, Camillo
Pulci

R

Kacan
Rapisardi
Redi, Francesco
Rienzi
Rinuccini
Ristori
Rolli, Paolo
Ronsard
Rosa, Salvator
Rossetti, Gabriele
Rota, Bernardino
Rucellai

S

Sacchetti, Franco
Salvini (Actor)
Salvini (Grammarian)
Sannazzaro
Sarpi, Fra Paolo
Savioli, Ludovico
Schopenhauer
Scott
Segneri, Father Paul
Segni, Bernardo
Serao, Matilde
Serrassi, Abbé
Shakespeare
Shelley
Sixtus V, Pope
Solerti, Angelo
Somers, Lord
Sophocles
Spolverini, Marquis
Stampa, Gaspara
Stella (Publisher)
Straparola

T

Tasso, Bernardo
Tasso, Torquato
Tassoni, Alessandro
Tennyson
Testi, Fulvio
Tiraboschi
Trissino

V

Vanini
Varano, Alfonso
Varchi, Benedetto
Vasari
Viani, Prospero
Victor Emmanuel
Vida
Villani, Filippo
Villani, Giovanni
Villani, Matteo
Vinci, Leonardo da
Virgil
Visconti, Galleazzo
Vittorelli
Viviani
Voltaire

W

Wordsworth

Z

Zanella, Abbé
Zappi, Faustina, daughter of the painter, Carlo Maratta
Zappi, Felice, husband of Faustina