Petrarch to Pirandello : : Studies in Italian Literature in Honour of Beatrice Corrigan / / ed. by Julius Molinaro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aguzzi-Barbagli, Danilo,; Bergin, Thomas G.,; Bernardo, Aldo S.,; Brand, C.P.,; Cecchetti, Giovanni,; Chandler, S.B.,; Clubb, Louise George,; Kuitunen, Maddalena,; Leo, Ulrich,; Levy, Kurt L.,; Noce, Hannibal S.,; Parker, J.H.,; Ragusa, Olga,; Terza, Dante Della,
• HerausgeberIn: Molinaro, Julius,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

This collection of studies in Italian literature is a tribute to Professor Corrigan on her retirement from active teaching at the University of Toronto. The essays, contributed by thirteen scholars in North America and Europe, cover a range of topics that reflect Professor Corrigan's many and varied interests. This book opens with a translation of Petrarch's first eclogue and ends with a comprehensive bibliography of Dr. Corrigan's publications. The eleven intervening essays examine some of the most significant moments in Italian literature from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The influence of the Renaissance and pastoral drama on Elizabethan England is discussed, as well as the literary achievement in Italian-English relations brought about by the translation of Addison's Cato. The works of Roberto Bracco are considered in the light of the plays of Ibsen, who in the eyes of the critics influenced the work of every Italian dramatist. Bracco is shown to be a dramatist in his own right. Other subjects treated in this Festschrift are Manzone's conception of the profound significance of the moment in the interpretation of the individual personality, Verga's mastery of style and language, and Pirandello's special techniques of transforming a short story into a play.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Bucolicum Carmen I: Parthenias -- Petrarch and the art of literature -- The making of the pastoral play: some Italian experiments between 1573 and 1590 -- lngegno, acutezza, and meraviglia in the sixteenth century great commentaries to Aristotle's Poetics -- Tasso, Spenser, and the Orlando Furioso -- Early Italian translations of Adddison's Cato -- Il passero solitario: study of a motif -- The moment in Manzoni -- Verga and verismo: the search for style and language -- Ibsen and the theatre of Roberto Bracco -- Pirandello's La patente: play and story -- The Italian novel and the avant-garde -- A bibliography of the published works of Beatrice Corrigan