Pathways through Literature - Italian writers

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	I. First literary experiments. The Zibaldone Laurenziano XXIX 8 texts
	II. A controversial testimony of poetry in dialect
	III. Encounter with lyrical and courtly tradition
	IV. Naples and the discovery of the romance narrative
	V. Between Naples and Florence
	VI. Love allegories in the vernacular
	VII. Experimentation in the style of Ovid and the psychological novel
	VIII. Tuscan mythologies
	IX. «To tell a hundred tales, or children's stories or parables or stories»
	X. Corbaccio
	XI. Scientific production
	XII. Poetry in Latin
	XIII. The cult of contemporaries
	XIV. The cult of ancient men and pagan gods
	XV. Sparse fragments of an existence