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Storia della letteratura italiana

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Storia della letteratura italiana, volume 1, 1912 reprint (complete text)

The Storia della letteratura italiana (History of Italian Literature) is an essay written by Italian literary critic Francesco de Sanctis, published by Morano in two volumes in 1870 and 1871.

It is considered the first truly complete, organic treatment of Italian literature as a whole.

Subdivision

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The Storia della letteratura italiana consists of the following 20 chapters (the last two are somewhat shorter and less in-depth, due to pressure the publisher put on De Sanctis to complete the work):