Literature of Italy, from Dante's founding of the vernacular tradition through the twentieth century. Belongs here: the medieval and Renaissance founders of Italian letters, and the modern Italian novelists and semioticians. Does not belong here: a Latin-language Roman author, placed under ancient and classical literature because Italian as a literary language begins only with the vernacular turn Dante represents.
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1. Italian Literature (Wikipedia)
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Italian literature began in the 12th century, when in different regions of the peninsula the Italian vernacular started to be used in a literary manner.
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