This small anthology brings together the great Italian poets, including Dante, Petrarch, Lorenzo de' Medici and their predecessors, as well as Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Alfieri, Leopardi, Pascoli, D'Annunzio, Ungaretti, Montale, Saba, and others up to Aldo Palazzeschi. Jürgen von Stackelberg has selected and newly translated 50 significant, representative poems; his translations are both precise and preserve the poetic tone of the printed originals, providing a completely new access to 700 years of Italian poetry. Languages: German, Italian.