...Giuseppe Gazzola Abstract This essay traces the interrelationship between Italian literary canon formation and constructions of national identity in the literary histories of Girolamo Tiraboschi and Francesco De Sanctis. It examines both the ruptures and the continuities between eighteenth...

... of Spanish literature. This may be expl1 .ined by the fact that they were written in Italy about the time the Italian literati Saverio Bettinelli and Girolamo Tiraboschi were making thir notorious derogatory accusa- tions against Spanish literature and cwture. Also, the severe tone of the criticism...

... Sismondi’s De la littérature du Midi de l’Europe (1813) or Girolamo Tiraboschi’s and Pierre-Louis Ginguené’s Italian literary histories (1772–82, 1811–35)—Hallam’s Literature of Europe was unprecedented. 10 So when EBB announces in “The Book of the Poets” that “we will do anything but agree...

... prefixed by J. B. Recanati to the 1715 edition of the Historia Flor- entinu, Maittaire’s Stephanorum historia, 1709, and the life of Casa contributed by Casotti to the 1752 edition of the O$ere. In Italy the writers of Latin literature were often listed in the national his- tories ; Tiraboschi...