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Italia Romantica

2005-01-28 Travel
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Release : 2005-01-28
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Italia Romantica by : Roderick Cavaliero

Download or read book Italia Romantica written by Roderick Cavaliero. This book was released on 2005-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italia Romantica is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy and of the changing attitudes in pre-unification Italy. In the eyes of the English Romantics, Italy was not a nation but Italia, a place inhabited by the ancients. Theirs was a view shaped by the eighteenth century, the age of the Grand Tour, when no future nobleman's education was complete without a visit to Venice's carnival, the majestic ruins of the Forum in Rome, or the legendary Mount Vesuvius. The people of Italy, divided by language, region, and culture, did not share these artistic and historical ideals of Italia. After the Napoleonic wars all this was to change: Napoleon's march across Europe altered the map of Italy and brought an end to the Grand Tour in its previous form. Nationalism began to replace local loyalties and the land 'where the lemon trees blow' now attracted tourists. Through the eyes of Romantic travellers and poets such as Byron, Keats and Shelley, we see a fascinating picture of pre-unification Italy, struggling to recover after Napoleon and edging towards the Risorgimento. Here is the Italy of idealised antiquity, magnificent but crumbling, somewhat like a gigantic and rather run-down living museum. Roderick Cavaliero's compelling story is full of bandits, unreformed Catholicism, poets and improvisatory, shot through with vignettes of timeless urban and pastoral life, remarkable characters and anecdote, in this readable and strongly-etched cultural history.

The Italian Idea

2020-01-02 History
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Release : 2020-01-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Italian Idea by : Will Bowers

Download or read book The Italian Idea written by Will Bowers. This book was released on 2020-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual-perspective study of how English engagement with Italy, and the work of Italian exiles in London, radicalised Romantic poetry.

British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840

2016-05-23 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-05-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840 by : Maureen McCue

Download or read book British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840 written by Maureen McCue. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry, plays, novels, travel writing, exhibition catalogues, early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors, including Felicia Hemans, William Buchanan, Henry Sass, Pierce Egan, William Hazlitt, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Anna Jameson, Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats, while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers, Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism.

Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

2019-05-14 Electronic books
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Release : 2019-05-14
Genre : Electronic books
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Book Synopsis Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture by : Patricia Cove

Download or read book Italian Politics and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture written by Patricia Cove. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.

Italian Music in Dakota

2017-03-13 Science
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Release : 2017-03-13
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Italian Music in Dakota by : Andrea Mariani

Download or read book Italian Music in Dakota written by Andrea Mariani. This book was released on 2017-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection between literature and music is a major feature in Anglo-American cultural history. The present volume analyzes the transatlantic migration of European opera and its appropriation by some of the most important literary figures of the United States. The presence of opera in literary texts is always "operative" and results in artistic outputs possessing more articulated and tense vectors of meaning. The comparative method applied confirms the musical sensitivity of masters such as Poe, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Wharton, Cather, reveals the intriguing contradictions in the poetics of Emerson, Thoreau and James and vindicates the role of some minor figures who, through their involvement in the world of musical theater, contributed to the intercultural context.

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