# A history of Italian literature

Author: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64529

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+history+of+Italian+literature+Garnett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Great literatures, like great rivers, seldom derive their origin from a single fountain, but rather ooze from the soil in a multitude of almost imperceptible springs. The literature of Greece may appear an exception, but we know that the broad stream of Homeric song in which we first behold it must have been fed by a number of rills which it has absorbed into itself, and whose original sources lie beyond the range of scrutiny. In no literature is this general maxim better exemplified than the Italian, if, at least, as the economy of this little history demands, we restrict this appellation to its modern period. It might be plausibly contended that the Latin and Italian literatures, like t...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-history-of-italian-literature-64529/chapters/16/index.md)