Italian Literature
Italian Literature
A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue, faith, hope, and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians, true love and nobility, which are manifested in their literary works, are inseparable.
FAMOUS POETS
PROFILE
WORKS
SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS
Horace
Virgil
Livy
Ovid
Real Name : Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Born in : Venosa, Basilicata, Italy
Born on: 08 December 2065 BC leading Roman poet of the Augustan Age
Real Name: Publius Vergilius Maro
Born in: Virgilio, Lombardy, Italy
Born on: October 15, 70 B.C. magnificent classical Roman poet
Real Name: Titus Livius
Born in: Patavium, Venetia, Italy
Born on: 64 or 59 BC one of the three great Roman historians
Real Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
Born in: Sulmo, Abruzzi, Italy
Born on: March 20, 43 BC most brilliant poet of period of moral reformation
Wrote several important works like, Ars Poetica, Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles and Carmen Saeculare.
Wrote significant works including, Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid.
Wrote “History of Rome” and the Roman People
Works such as Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses. Also wrote Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto in exile.
His significant work “Ars Poetica” served as a canonical guide for composing poetry till the end of romanticism.
his epic, "Aeneid" regarded as a national epic of Rome
most famous work was his history of Rome. In it he explains the complete history of the city of Rome, from its foundation to the death of Augustus.
His first poems, the Amores (The Loves), were published at intervals, beginning about 20 BCE, in five books. They form a series of short poems depicting the various phases of a love affair with a woman called Corinna.
FAMOUS POETS
PROFILE
WORKS
SHORT
A study of Italian literature has strongly influenced not only the Europeans but also the world. It shows passionate sensitivity to goodness and true beauty of life. The Italian love for Christian virtue, faith, hope, and charity radiates in both their prose and poetry. For Italians, true love and nobility, which are manifested in their literary works, are inseparable.
FAMOUS POETS
PROFILE
WORKS
SHORT DESCRIPTION of WORKS
Horace
Virgil
Livy
Ovid
Real Name : Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Born in : Venosa, Basilicata, Italy
Born on: 08 December 2065 BC leading Roman poet of the Augustan Age
Real Name: Publius Vergilius Maro
Born in: Virgilio, Lombardy, Italy
Born on: October 15, 70 B.C. magnificent classical Roman poet
Real Name: Titus Livius
Born in: Patavium, Venetia, Italy
Born on: 64 or 59 BC one of the three great Roman historians
Real Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
Born in: Sulmo, Abruzzi, Italy
Born on: March 20, 43 BC most brilliant poet of period of moral reformation
Wrote several important works like, Ars Poetica, Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles and Carmen Saeculare.
Wrote significant works including, Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid.
Wrote “History of Rome” and the Roman People
Works such as Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses. Also wrote Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto in exile.
His significant work “Ars Poetica” served as a canonical guide for composing poetry till the end of romanticism.
his epic, "Aeneid" regarded as a national epic of Rome
most famous work was his history of Rome. In it he explains the complete history of the city of Rome, from its foundation to the death of Augustus.
His first poems, the Amores (The Loves), were published at intervals, beginning about 20 BCE, in five books. They form a series of short poems depicting the various phases of a love affair with a woman called Corinna.
FAMOUS POETS
PROFILE
WORKS
SHORT