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Francis Henry Cliffe

An Irish writer and literary scholar of the late Victorian period, he moved between fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism with a special love for Italian literature. His best-known work offers readers a broad, thoughtful guide to Italy’s literary tradition.

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A Manual of Italian Literature

A Manual of Italian Literature

by Francis Henry Cliffe

About the author

Born in Wexford, Ireland, on January 16, 1860, Francis Henry Cliffe was an Irish author whose work ranged across several forms. Reliable bibliographic sources connect him with poetry, plays, literary translation, and fiction, showing a writer with wide interests rather than a single narrow specialty.

Cliffe is now most closely associated with A Manual of Italian Literature (1896), a survey that traces major Italian writers and movements from earlier centuries into the nineteenth century. He also translated and worked with the writings of Giacomo Leopardi, and his known novels include Can it be True? (1887) and A Daughter's Grief (1897).

He died in 1907. A confirmed modern portrait was not readily available in the sources I could verify, so no profile image is included here.