This is the first comprehensive reference work on Italian literature to be published in English. With 2,400 entries from an international team of scholars, it provides a wealth of clear, up-to-date assessments of Italy's writers, famous and not so famous, from 1200 to 2000, whether they wrote in Italian, dialect, or Latin, together with vital background information on historical events, regional culture, and the other arts.

Edited by Peter Hainsworth , Professor of Italian, University of Oxford

David Robey , Professor of Italian, University of Reading

`The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature can be used in a variety of ways. This is thanks to its logical and clear layout and the consistently high quality of the entries...It is therefore indispensable as a work of reference...It is a delight to open the volume at random and read the first entry that catches the eye. Indeed, two copies of The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature are needed, one in the study and the other beside the bed.'' Rivista (the Journal of the British-Italian Society)