Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Storybook (ca. 1300): 3 stories 2. Dante (1265-1321): The Divine Comedy 3. Petrarca (1304-1374): 5 sonnets 4. Boccaccio (1313-1375): Decameron 5. Sacchetti (ca. 1330-1400): The Three Hundred Tales 6. The Little Flowers of Saint Francis (ca. 1390) 7. Ser Giovanni Fiorentino: Pecorone (ca. 1400) 8. Pulci (1432-1484): Morgante 9. Boiardo (1441-1494): Orlando in Love 10. Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492): 2 lyric poems 11. Poliziano (1454-1494): 2 lyric poems 12. Sannazaro (1455-1530): Arcadia 13. Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince 14. Bembo (1470-1547): The Asolo Discourses 15. Ariosto (1474-1533): The Frenzy of Orlando 16. Michelangelo (1475-1564): 2 sonnets 17. Castiglione (1478-1529): The Courtier 18. Guicciardini (1483-1540): Florentine Histories & History of Italy 19. Bandello (1484-1561): Stories 20. Da Porto (1485-1529): "History ... of Two Noble Sweethearts" 21. Straparola (ca. 1490-ca. 1557): The Pleasant Nights 22. Cellini (1500-1571): Autobiography 23. Della Casa (1503-1556): Galateo 24. Cinzio (1504-1573): The Hundred Tales 25. Vasari (1511-1574): The Lives 26. Stampa (ca. 1523-1554): 3 sonnets 27. Tasso (1544-1595): Jerusalem Delivered 28. Bruno (1548-1600): Cause, Principle, and Unity 29. Galileo (1564-1642): The Assayer 30. Campanella (1568-1639): The City of the Sun 31. Marino (1569-1625): Adonis 32. Vico (1668-1744): The New Science 33. Metastasio (1698-1782): 2 sonnets 34. Gozzi (1713-1786): 2 sonnets 35. Parini (1729-1799): sonnet 36. Alfieri (1749-1803): 3 sonnets 37. Monti (1754-1828): 2 sonnets 38. Foscolo (1778-1827): 5 sonnets 39. Manzoni (1785-1873): The Betrothed 40. Pellico (1789-1854): My Prisons 41. Leopardi (1798-1837): 2 lyric poems 42. De Sanctis (1817-1883): History of Italian Literature 43. Collodi (1826-1890): The Adventures of Pinocchio 44. Nievo (1831-1861): The Confessions of an Italian 45. Carducci (1835-1907): 2 lyric poems and a prose passage 46. Verga (1840-1922): Master Gesualdo 47. Boito (1842-1918): "The Black Chess Bishop" 48. Fogazzaro (1842-1911): Malombra 49. Pascoli (1855-1912): 3 lyric poems 50. Svero (1861-1928): Old Age 51. D'Annunzio (1863-1938): The Innocent One & verse 52. Croce (1866-1952): Breviary of Esthetics 53. Pirandello (1867-1936): The Late Mattia Pascal 54. Deledda (1871-1936): Reeds in the Wind 55. Saba (1883-1957): 4 lyric poems

About the Author

Stanley Appelbaum served for decades as Dover's Editor in Chief until his retirement in 1996. He continues to work as a selector, compiler, editor, and translator of literature in a remarkable range of languages that includes Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian.