item: #1 of 4
id: 35792
author: Symonds, John Addington
title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1
date: None
words: 162711
flesch: 68
summary: [623] It may be interesting to compare this scarcely disguised satire with the official flatteries of _Canzone_ ii. The changes wrought by Poliziano in the structure of _ottava rima_, his majesty and linked sweetness long drawn out, were unknown to Boiardo.
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item: #2 of 4
id: 36448
author: Symonds, John Addington
title: Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 2
date: None
words: 214428
flesch: 62
summary: We are moving among Italian _bourgeois_ in the masquerade of heroes and princesses. beauty of the work, iv. 131; has the childlike character of Italian _trecento_ prose, 131; S. Anthony preaching to the fishes, quoted as a specimen of its style, 134 Firenzuola, Agnolo, the friend of Aretino, v. 83; their correspondence, 410 _note_ 1; a member of the _Vignajuoli_
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item: #3 of 4
id: 41934
author: Collins, Joseph
title: Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life
date: None
words: 89140
flesch: 59
summary: Only such men understand the necessity of defending _unguibus et rostris_, even against our allies, the juridical ground we have conquered. Then there are many young men carrying the banner of literature in Italy to-day who do not call themselves Futurist, and whose writings contain less of the grotesque, which has been made familiar to Italian readers by Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb.
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item: #4 of 4
id: 52356
author: Leopardi, Giacomo
title: Essays and Dialogues
date: None
words: 76205
flesch: 75
summary: Now these men, whose life normally lasts only forty years, that is, half the time granted by nature to other men, would experience every moment an intensity of life, twice as strong as ours, because their growth, maturity, and decline are accomplished twice as rapidly as with us. Both are often despised for their difference in manner of life and opinions from other men, who neither do justice to their ability nor to the writings they put forth in proof of it.
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