Venetian literature - Wikipedia Venetian literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (March 2009) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Italian article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Letteratura in lingua veneta]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|it|Letteratura in lingua veneta}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Venetian literature is the corpus of literature in Venetian, the vernacular language of the region roughly corresponding to Venice, from the 12th century. Venetian literature, after an initial period of splendour in the sixteenth century with the success of artists such as Ruzante, reached its zenith in the eighteenth century, thanks to its greatest exponent, dramatist Carlo Goldoni. Subsequently, the literary production in Venetian underwent a period of decline following the collapse of the Republic of Venice, but survived nonetheless into the twentieth century to reach peaks with wonderful lyrical poets such as Biagio Marin of Grado. Contents 1 Origin 2 Thirteenth century 3 Fourteenth century 4 Later 5 References Origin[edit] The first evidence of the birth of vernacular Venetian (and Italian) is the Veronese Riddle, dating between the end of the eighth and the early ninth century, written in a language halfway between Latin and the vernacular. The first fragment entirely in Venetian, dating to circa 1198, is the Ritmo bellunese which deals with events at Belluno in the years 1183 to 1196. Also dating to the twelfth century are the verses of the love song Quando eu stava in le tu' cathene. Thirteenth century[edit] In the thirteenth century we witness in the Venetian an explosion of compositions designed to meet the literary tastes of the emerging urban classes. Especially remarkable is the production of the Veronese School, with Giacomino da Verona, author of the poem in two parts, De Gerusalem Celesti ("On the Heavenly Jerusalem") and De Babilonia Civitate Infernali ("On Babylon, the Infernal City"). Published anonymously from this era are Lamento della Sposa Padovana or Bona çilosia Fourteenth century[edit] Throughout the 14th century, the centre of literary production Venetian continued to be Padua. At the end of the 14th century, Count Carraresi commissioned Bibbia Istoriata Padovana and Liber agregà of Serapion also called "Erbario Carrarese" (held at the British Library, London), a translation from the Latin Carrara Herbarium, a treatise of medicine originally in Arabic. An important writer from this period is Francesco di Vannozzo (~1330-1389).[1] Cronaca de la guera tra Veniciani e Zenovesi by Daniele da Chinazzo is a chronicle of the War of Chioggia between 1379 and 1381. Original works of the fourteenth century include those that go together under the name of Franco-Venetian literature characterized by a unique mix of vulgar Venetian with medieval French. Among the best known works are the anonymously authored lEntrée d'Espagne and its continuation, La prise de Pampelune by Niccolò da Verona. Later[edit] Notable is a manuscript titled "Dialogue ... on the New star" attributed to Galileo (1564–1642). The language enjoyed substantial prestige in the days of the Venetian Republic, when it attained the status of a lingua franca in the Mediterranean. Notable Venetian-language authors are the playwrights Ruzante (1502–1542) and Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793). Both Ruzante and Goldoni, following the old Italian theater tradition (Commedia dell'Arte), used Venetian in their comedies as the speech of the common folk. They are ranked among the foremost Italian theatrical authors of all time, and Goldoni's plays are still performed today. Other notable works in Venetian are the translations of the Iliad by Casanova (1725–1798) and Francesco Boaretti, and the poems of Biagio Marin (1891–1985). Nowadays Venetian is still vigorous even in Brazil, where it is called Talian. This Venetian language version, spoken by hundreds of thousands of emigrants from Veneto living in Brazil, is written by dozens of writers, especially in Rio Grando and Santa Cattarina. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Venetian literature References[edit] ^ Glanville Price (1998). Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. p. 264. ISBN 0-631-22039-9. Elettra Bedon. Il filo di Arianna. Letteratura contemporanea in lingua veneta. Longo Editore, 1999. ISBN 978-88-8063-195-8 Bruno Rosada. I secoli della letteratura veneta. Complementi dell'Offerta Formativa, a cura della Regione Veneto e della Provincia di Venezia. Arti Grafiche Venete, Venezia, 2002. v t e European literature Abkhaz Albanian Anglo-Norman Aragonese Armenian Asturian Austrian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Belgian Bohemian Bosnian Breton British Bulgarian Catalan Chuvash Cornish Croatian Cypriot Czech Danish Dutch English Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Middle English Estonian Faroese Finnish Flemish French Frisian Friulian Gaelic Galician German Greek ancient medieval modern Greenlandic Hungarian Icelandic Irish Northern Irish Italian Jèrriais Kazakh Kosovar Latin Latvian Lithuanian Luxembourg Macedonian Maltese Manx Montenegrin Norwegian Occitan (Provençal) Old Norse Ossetian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Sardinian Scottish Scots Scottish Gaelic Serbian Slovak Slovene Spanish Swedish Swiss Turkish Turkish Cypriot Ukrainian Venetian Welsh in English in Welsh Western Lombard Yiddish Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venetian_literature&oldid=976411121" Categories: Venetian language Italian literature Literature by language European literature Culture of the Republic of Venice Hidden categories: Articles to be expanded from March 2009 All articles to be expanded Culture articles needing translation from Italian Wikipedia Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Italiano Português Vèneto Edit links This page was last edited on 2 September 2020, at 19:31 (UTC). 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