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List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Letizia Panizza Part I. The Renaissance, Counter-Reformation and Seventeenth Century: 1. Letter writing, 1350-1650 Maria Luisa Doglio 2. The fifteenth century: i. Humanism Letizia Panizza, ii. Vernacular poetry and mystery plays Judith Bryce 3. Lyric poetry Giovanna Rabitti 4. Fiction, 1560-1650 Virginia Cox 5. Polemical prose writing 1500-1650 Letizia Panizza 6. Religious and devotional writing, 1400-1500 Gabriella Zarri Part II: 7. Eighteenth-century literature Luisa Ricaldone 8. Travel writing Ricciarda Ricorda 9. Journalism, 1750-1850 Verina Jones 10. Literary critics and scholars, 1700-1850 Adriana Chemello Part III: 11. Journalists and essayists, 1850-1915 Silvana Patriarca 12. The novel, 1870-1920 Lucienne Kroha 13. The popular novel, 1850-1920 Anna Laura Lepschy 14. Futurism and fascism, 1914-1945 Lucia Re 15. The novel, 1945-1965 Ann Hallamore Caesar 16. The novel, 1965-2000 Adalgisa Giorgio 17. Poetry, 1870-2000 Catherine O'Brien 18 Theatre and cinema, 1945-2000 Aine O'Healy 19. Aesthetics and critical theory Sharon Wood Abbreviations Bibliography.