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Sheila Ralphs

LOCATION: Manchester M20 9LP, United Kingdom


Former Senior Lecturer in Italian, Victoria University of Manchester, England.

Primary Contributions (1)
Gabriele D’Annunzio.
the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in Europe during the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly practical in nature and produced by writers trained in ecclesiastical schools. Literature in Italian developed later than literature in French and Provençal, the languages of the north and south of France, respectively. Only small fragments of Italian vernacular verse before the end of the 12th century have been found (although a number of Latin legal records contain witness testimonies in an Italian dialect vernacular), and surviving 12th- and 13th-century verse reflects French and Provençal influence. Early vernacular literature The influence of France French prose and verse romances were popular in Italy from the 12th to the 14th century. Stories from the Carolingian and Arthurian cycles, together with free adaptations from the Latin narrative...
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