A History of Italian Literature

by Ernest Hatch Wilkins

Second printing. This book was known by reviewers as the best history of Italian literature ever written in the English language. Writers discussed are St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michaelangelo, and Galileo. For this present edition Thomas G. Bergin has written a new chapter covering trends in Italian literature since World War II, and has updated the bibliographies, added a map and a chronological chart. Indexed. Three inch by one and one half inch piece missing from front of dust jacket. xii , 570 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. large 8vo..

570 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Sir Ernest Frederic George Hatch, 1st Baronet, KBE (12 April 1859 – 17 August 1927) was a British politician.

He was the son of John William Hatch of London and Matilda Augusta Snell of Callington, Cornwall. Following a private education, he went into business as a wine merchant, and in 1894 established Hatch, Mansfield and Company.

Reviews

[LaShana Claude]

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, while interest in the medievally rooted sacra rappresentazione was diminishing rapidly, interest in the Roman drama had become very active. Comedies of Plautus and of Terence had been performed in Latin in Rome and in Florence, and in Italian translation in Ferrara


-The optician fitted a pair of medievally heavy glass spectacles on his nose.

The prison camps were usually either medievally uncomfortable or monotonously similar.

It will revolutionize the treatment of disease, making our current treatments seem medievally clumsy and crude.