Italian literature

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Italian regional literature

The cultural and artistic events of Italy during the period 1400 to 1499 are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento ( , , ), from the Italian word for the number '400', in turn from , '1400'. The Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages (most notably International Gothic), the early Renaissance (beginning around 1425), and the start of the High Renaissance, generally asserted to begin between 1495 and 1500.

Italian literary movement

13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo

thumb|upright=1.3|Letícia Román in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), considered by most critics to be the first film

memoir by Primo Levi

Manieristic monumental complex located in northern Lazio, Italy

essay by Dante Alighieri

Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690

non-fiction work by Baldassarre Castiglione

thumb|1521 edition of Convivio, retitled to Lo amoroso Convivio di Dante Convivio (;) ("The Banquet") is an unfinished work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. It consists of four books, or "tratatti": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a prose allegorical interpretation or commentary of the poem that goes off in multiple thematic directions.

Sprezzatura () is an Italian word that refers to a kind of effortless grace, the art of making something difficult look easy, or maintaining a nonchalant demeanor while performing complex tasks.

literary tradition of the Piedmont region of Italy

Italian poet (1634-1704)

trope of ancient Roman exemplary literature

philosophy in Italy

thumb|Signor Tomato and Cipollino on a 1992 Russian stamp. Cipollino (), or Little Onion as translated from the original, is a fictional character from Gianni Rodari's eponymous Tale of Cipollino () written in 1951. Also known under its 1957 renamed title Adventures of Cipollino (), it is a children's tale about political oppression. He also appeared before the publication of the book in the children's magazine Il Pioniere of which Rodari was the editor. Cipollino was popular in the Soviet Union, up to the point of being adapted as a ballet composed by Karen Khachaturian and choreographed by H

building in Florence, Italy

millennial period of literature of Sardinia, Italy

literary work

work by Giacomo Leopardi

the earliest securely datable (circa 1198) text in an Venetian vernacular

national epic of the Ladin people in the Dolomites and the most important part of the Ladin literature

Italian poet, politician and journalist (1909-1990)

Italian fairy tale