Italian literature timeline

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  • 1502 Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia, a pirated edition (the author officially sanctioned publication in 1504); a manuscript of the original work is dated 1489, with two eclogues and connecting prose added later, seemngly reflecting the author's distress at political developments in about 1500; Italy[1]


  • 1505 - Bembo, Gli Asolani
  • 1509 Ariosto, The Pretenders
  • 1514 Trissino, Sophonisba
  • 1518 Aldine editions of Pontano's bucolic lyrics in Latin
  • 1525:
    • Aretino, The Courtesan
    • Bembo, Writings in the Vernacular Language
  • 1549 Gelli, Circe
  • 1552 Folengo, Baldus
  • 1552 - 1553 Doni, The Marble Steps and The Worlds
  • 1573 Tasso, Aminta
  • 1581 Caro's translation of The Aeneid
  • 1582 Bruno, The Candle Bearer
  • 1584-1585 Bruno, The Ash Wednesday Supper, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, The Heroic Frenzies
  • 1589:
    • Della Porta, The Sister
    • Guarini, The Faithful Shepherd
  • 1591 Della Valle, The Queen of Scotland
  • 1594 Tasso, Discourses on the Heroic Poem
  1. ^ a b c Bondanella, Peter, and Julia Conaway Bondanella, co-editors, Dictionary of Italian Literature, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979