Author: Laura Bandiera
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9042018577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers comparative literature; English literature; Italian literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author: Fabio A Camilletti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1317321340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to contribute to the debate from a new perspective.
Author: David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-04-23
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780521230520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Professor Kimbell's classic study illuminates the first fifteen years of Verdi's composing career, the era that culminated in his trio of masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Verdi had become an acknowledged master of the peculiar brand of Romanticism that flourished in Italy in the 1830s and 40s; this background is examined in its political, social and literary light, and his consequent transformation of Italian operatic conventions is analysed. The four parts of Professor Kimbell's book range over biographical, documentary, literary and close-analytical ground. Attention is given to individual operas in order to show how Verdi assimilated and developed the Romantic tradition in his work.
Author: Joseph Luzzi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-11-24
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0300151780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.
Author: C. P Brand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0521247292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fashionable and well-informed interest in Italy was a feature of English intellectual life in the first half of the 19th century. Most cultured people could read Italian and knew something of Italian literature. Young ladies learned to sing in Italian, whilst young gentlemen completed their education with a tour in Italy. Painters went there to make copies from Raphael; architects to sketch the Graeco-Roman ruins. Men of letters in particular found themselves drawn to Italy and much Romantic literature reflects this interest; many works owe their origin to Italian literature. In this book, which was originally published in 1957, Dr Brand traces the growth and decline of the social fashion which made Italy the goal of so many cultured Englishmen. He examines in particular the extent and significance of Italy's fascination for the English romantic writers, and traces the effects of the fashion in music, painting, architecture and political affairs.
Author: Peter Brand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780521434928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'There is no doubt that the present splendid volume ... is likely to remain unrivalled for many years to come for width of coverage, richness of detail, and elegance of presentation.' Modern Language Reviews
Author: Fabio A Camilletti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1317321332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to contribute to the debate from a new perspective.
Author: Roberta J.M. Olson
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: 2001-12-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780812232073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first major book to present a panorama of Italian painting from 1797 to 1900, placing it firmly in the mainstream of art history of the nineteenth century. Ottocento reveals the historical context for nineteenth-century Italian painting and presents major works by important Italian artists who are little known outside their native land.