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Article: Tra Cinque e Seicento: tradizione e anticlassicismo nella sintassi della prosa letteraria.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2007
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Tra Cinque e Seicento: tradizione e anticlassicismo nella sintassi della prosa letteraria. By SERGIO BOZZOLA. Florence: Olschki. 2004. viii + 168pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 978-88-222-5344-6.
This book deals with the traditional opposition between classicismo and anticlassicismo in Italian culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its innovative aspect lies in the application of these categories to prose. Pietro Bembo's Prose della volgar lingua (1525) provided two models for Italian literature and language, Petrarch for poetry and Boccaccio for prose. While the poetic model was clear in its applications (to language and grammar), the prose model was ...