The Renaissance of Italian Literature

The dawn of the European Renaissance first appeared in Italy. The first one represents Dante. With his masterpiece Divine Comedy, he became a great poet in the history of Italian and European literature. Petrarch and Boccaccio, two other pioneers of the Renaissance, pioneered modern European lyric poetry and short stories with Song and decameron respectively.

/kloc-from the second half of the 4th century to the middle of the 5th century, the most important poet was Poliziano (1454 ~ 1494), whose poems reflected humanists' yearning for the pastoral world. Pulch (1432 ~ 1484) and Bovado (144 1 ~ 1494) entered the history of Italian literature with the legendary narrative poems of knight, Morganti and lovely Roland respectively.

The representative figures in the late Renaissance are Ariosto (1474 ~ 1533), Machiavelli (1469 ~ 1527) and Tasso (1544 ~1527). Ariosto's Crazy Roland, after Beauvado's Lovely Roland, paved the way for the development of European narrative poetry. The comedies of Machiavelli, Ariosto and Aretino (1492 ~ 1556) laid the foundation for the development of Italian comedies. Tasso's narrative poem "Liberated Jerusalem" shines with the last light of the Renaissance.

17 ~18th century literature17th century, Italy lost its important position in European economy and culture due to foreign invasion and political turmoil. Literature presents a scene of decline. Marino (1569 ~ 1625), as a representative of formalist literature, appeared the marino School of Poetry and the Acadian School of Poetry.

/kloc-In the second half of the 0/8th century, Italy gained a relatively stable situation. Natural science, materialist philosophy and the Enlightenment were widely spread. Enlightenment literature appeared. Gordoni (1707 ~ 1793), the most accomplished enlightenment writer, innovated the long-standing popular "masked comedy" and created the "custom comedy", which embodied the distinct democratic thought and laid the foundation for the development of Italian realistic drama.