Quiz  /  Literature of Italy Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which poet drew on his own experience of exile from his native city of Florence to write The Divine Comedy?

  • Cosimo de’ Medici
  • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  • Dante
  • Giovanni Boccaccio

  • 2. 
    Who addressed his 14th-century poetry to an idealized beloved named Laura?

  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Petrarch
  • Dante
  • Lorenzo de’ Medici

  • 3. 
    Which ancient Roman writer, who witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was allegedly overcome and killed by fumes from the volcano?

  • Seneca
  • Ovid
  • Pliny the Elder
  • Cicero

  • 4. 
    What Italian literary critic and semiotician wrote a best-selling murder mystery?

  • Italo Calvino
  • Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Umberto Eco
  • Primo Levi

  • 5. 
    What medieval collection of tales begins with the flight of people from plague-stricken Florence?

  • Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
  • William Langland’s Piers Plowman
  • John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron
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