Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Italian-language writers, Italian literature, Swiss literature, The Book of the Courtier, The Leopard, New Italian Epic, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Giallo, The Travels of Marco Polo, De mulieribus claris, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, Italian Folktales, Academy of Arcadia, Pratica della mercatura, L'huomo di lettere, P. M. Pasinetti, Matilda Koen-Sarano, De vulgari eloquentia, De viris illustribus, Paolo Brera, Bible translations, Sprezzatura, Ritmo cassinese, Claudio Manuel da Costa, Consorzio ICoN, Venetian literature, Il teatro alla moda, Tahar Lamri, Ritmo di Sant'Alessio, Schweizer Bibliothek, Ritmo bellunese, Liber Jani de Procida et Palialoco, Caffe Giubbe Rosse, Gli Asolani, Swiss Literary Archives, Baptista Malatesta, Dorothee Elmiger, Ritmo lucchese, Leggenda di Messer Gianni di Procida, Gruppe Olten, Cipollino, Accademia degli Svogliati, Martin Suter, Italian poetry, Il Giallo Mondadori, Storia della letteratura italiana, Progetto Babele, Erichtho, Segretissimo, Convivio, Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Festivaletteratura, Le Rime, Venice Literary Biennale. Excerpt: Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian. A depiction of Boetius teaching his students (1385). Boetius, a 6th century Christian philosopher, helped keep alive the classic tradition in post-Roman Italy.As the Western Roman Empire declined, the Latin tradition was kept alive by writers such as Cassiodorus, Boethius, and Symmachus. The liberal arts flourished at Ravenna under Theodoric, and the Gothic kings surrounded themselves with masters of rhetoric and of...