Italian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...writings in the Italian language, as distinct from earlier...guidance in matters of language, literary style, moral...15th cent., poetic language and tastes had been...the values of humanist learning. In the circle of Lorenzo...Foscolo belongs to the second. A distinguishing feature...