Anthony Oldcorn
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Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Author of Textual Problems of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Conquistata; editor of Letture Classensi; coeditor of Lectura Dantis. Translator of Seamus Heaney (into Italian) and Carlo Goldoni, D'Annunzio, and others (into English).
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Italian literature, the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in Europe during the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly practical in nature and produced byβ¦
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