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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. The Backgrounds Of Italian Literature -- Chapter 1. Early Folk Literature And Minstrelsy -- Chapter 2. St. Francis Of Assisi -- Chapter 3. Frederick The Second And His Circle -- Chapter 4. Poetry Of The Latter Half Of The Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 5. Prose Of The Latter Half Of The Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 6. Dante In Florence -- Chapter 7. Dante In Exile -- Chapter 8. The Divine Comedy -- Chapter 9. Contemporaries Of Dante -- Chapter 10. Petrarch -- Chapter 11. Boccaccio -- Chapter 12. Contemporaries Of Petrarch And Boccaccio -- Chapter 13. Writers Of The Late Fourteenth Century -- Chapter 14. The Militant Humanists -- Chapter 15. Contemporaries Of The Militant Humanists -- Chapter 16. Lorenzo De' Medici -- Chapter 17. Florentine Humanists -- Chapter 18. Luigi Pulci And Other Florentine Writers -- Chapter 19. Neapolitan, Ferrarese, And Other Writers -- Chapter 20. Bembo -- Chapter 21. Ariosto -- Chapter 22. Michelangelo And Other Poets -- Chapter 23. Mackiavelli And Guicciaraini -- Chapter 24. Castiglione And Other Prose Writers -- Chapter 25. Comedy And Tragedy -- Chapter 26. Poetry Of The Mid-sixteenth Century -- Chapter 27. Prose Of The Mid-sixteenth Century -- Chapter 28. The Pastoral Play And The Commedia Dell'arte -- Chapter 29. Torquato Tasso -- Chapter 30. Giordano Bruno -- Chapter 31. The Drama In The Late Sixteenth Century -- Chapter 32. Marino And Other Poets -- Chapter 33. Campanella -- Chapter 34. Galileo And Other Prose Writers -- Chapter 35. Early Opera -- Chapter 36. A Stagnant Interval -- Chapter 37. Metastasio And Other Arcadians -- Chapter 38. Vico -- Chapter 39. Goldoni And Carlo Gozzi -- Chapter 40. Parini And Other Writers -- Chapter 41. Alfieri -- Chapter 42. Foscolo And Other Waiters -- Chapter 43. Manzoni -- Chapter 44. Leopardi -- Chapter 45. Contemporaries Of Manzoni And Leopardi -- Chapter 46. Mazzini -- Chapter 47. Contemporaries Of Mazzini -- Chapter 48. Carducci