Origins and duecento / Jonathan Usher: Poetry. Prose --
Trecento: Dante / Lino Pertile. Boccaccio / Pamela D. Stewart. Petrarch / John Took. Minor writers / Steven Botterill --
Quattrocento / Letizia Panizza: Humanism. Power, patronage and literary associations. Literature in the vernacular --
Cinquecento: Prose / Brian Richardson. Narrative poetry / Peter Marinelli. Lyric poetry / Anthony Oldcorn. Theatre / Richard Andrews --
Seicento : poetry, philosophy and science / Paolo Cherchi: Baroque. Lyric poetry
Mock-epic poetry and satire. Treatises --
Narrative prose and theatre / Albert N. Mancini : Narrative prose. Theatre. Opera --
Settecento / Franco Fido: First half of the settecento. Theatre from Metastasio to Goldoni. Opera / David Kimbell. Enlightenment and Parini. Alfieri and pre-romanticism --
Age of romanticism (1800-1870) / Giovanni Carsaniga : Romantic controversy. Monti. Foscolo. Leopardi. Manzoni and the novel. Other novelists and poets of the risorgimento. Opera since 1800 / David Kimbell --
Literature of united Italy (1870-1910): Writer and society in the new Italy / Robert Dombroski. Pirandello / Felicity Firth --
Rise and fall of fascism / Robert Dombroski : Poetry and the avant-garde. Philosophy and literature from Croce to Gramsci. Novel --
Aftermath of the Second World War (1945-56) / John Gatt-Rutter: After the liberation. Neo-realism. History and the poets --
Contemporary Italy (since 1956) / Michael Caesar: Late 1950s and the 1960s. 1970s. 1980s.
