Introduction to Romance Languages and Literature: Latin, French, Spanish, Provencal, Italian

Erich Auerbach, the author of *Mimesis* and one of the great international scholars of the twentieth century, produced in this book a concentration of decades of study in Romance philology and literatures. The brilliant flexible mind, the wealth of information, the powers of construction, all these testify to the activity of one of the great scholarly minds of our time. This handbook translated for the first time into English, serves as the best possible introduction to any of the Romance languages covered in it as well as to the general field of Romance philology and literature, since it contains histories of medieval, Renaissance and modern developments of the literatures of the great Romance civilizations as well as a comprehensive and detailed account of the growth and structure of the Romance languages.