venetian literature and publishing 647
Carlo dionisotti, Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana (turin, 1971)
provides a framework; in addition, dionisotti provided excellent editions
of the works of Pietro bembo. an overview of Venetian theater is giorgio
Padoan, La commedia rinascimentale veneta (Vicenza, 1982). bianca Maria
da rif, ed., La letteratura alla bulesca: testi rinascimentali veneti (Padua,
1984) provides an introduction to and texts of that genre. an overview
of the theater of ruzante is Linda L. Carroll, Angelo Beolco (Il Ruzante)
(boston, 1990); an extensive bibliography of editions and scholarship is
available in Linda L. Carroll, ed., Angelo Beolco (Il Ruzante), La prima
oratione (London, 2009). Mario baratto’s essays on ruzante and aretino in
his Tre studi sul teatro (Vicenza, 1964) are indispensable. the vast tapestry
of Venetian life was recorded by diarist Marin sanudo (Marino sanuto); a
selection of important passages translated into english and explicated is
available in Patricia h. Labalme and Laura sanguineti White, eds., Venice,
Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin
Sanudo, trans. Linda L. Carroll (baltimore, 2008). the essential monograph
on the poligrafi is Paul F. grendler, Critics of the Italian World, 1530–60:
Anton Francesco Doni, Nicolò Franco and Ortensio Lando (Madison, 1969).
Margaret rosenthal has written the monograph Honest Courtesan: Veronica
Franco, Citizen and Writer in 16th-century Venice (Chicago, 1992). together
with ann rosalind Jones she has edited and translated Veronica Franco,
Poems and Selected Letters (Chicago, 1998). gaspara stampa has been
the subject of scholarly monographs, and her poetry has been published
and translated.
The 17th Century
sCV 4.1, titled simply Il Seicento [The Seventeenth Century], offers a variety
of riches on the little-studied literature and publishing of this period.
the essays include tiziana Pesenti, “stampatori e letterati nell’industria
editoriale a Venezia e in terraferma,” pp. 93–129; gino benzoni, “Le
accademie,” pp. 131–62; Maria Luisa doglio, “La letteratura ufficiale e
l’oratoria celebrativa,” pp. 163–87; Francesco ersparmer, “Petrarchismo
e manierismo nella lirica del second Cinquecento,” pp. 189–222; guido
baldassari, “ ‘acutezza’ e ‘ingegno’: teoria e pratica del gusto barocco,” pp.
223–47; ginetta auzzas, “Le nuove esperienze nella narrativa: il romanzo,”
pp. 249–95; nicola Mangini, “La tragedia e la commedia,” pp. 297–326;
Fernando bandini, “La letteratura pavana dopo il ruzante: tra manierismo
e barocco,” pp. 327–62; Manlio Cortelazzo, “uso, vitalità, e espansione
del dialetto,” pp. 363–79; elena Povoledo, “i comici professionisti e la