Universities and the Teaching of Italian Literature *

Author's Summary— Professor Toffanin sees the inevitability of a change in the teaching of Italian literature in Italy as well as abroad. He contrasts the independent researchers of the XVIII century and the systematic researchers of the late XIX century. The latter worked as occupants of a university chair with more method but with less results than those often spurned academicians. Toffanin desires the strict method of his generation to be vivified by the genuine love for learning that characterized the criticism of such great XVIII century scholars as Muratori and Tiraboschi. E ditor .