A History Of Italian Literature

A History of Italian Literature (1960) – J.H. Whitfield – Pelican Books
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Step into the melodramatic, sun-drenched world of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and beyond with A History of Italian Literature by J.H. Whitfield — a Pelican Books classic from 1960. This scholarly yet surprisingly readable survey trots dutifully through centuries of poetry, prose, and passionate epistolary outbursts, from medieval mystics to modernist misfits.

Whitfield keeps his academic tweed jacket firmly buttoned, but there’s wit between the lines if you squint hard enough. Perfect for armchair scholars, pasta-fueled romantics, or anyone who’s ever pretended to read The Divine Comedy.

This copy is brought to you by Crappy Old Books — it’s a bit tanned, smells faintly of forgotten libraries, and might contain marginalia from a long-dead undergraduate. In other words: it’s perfect.

Near new condition, as though never read.

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