Italia Romantica English Romantics and Italian Freedom |
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| Author:
| Cavaliero, Roderick |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84511-456-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Publisher: | I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
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| Imprint: | Tauris Parke |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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What had seemed to Grand Tourists a museum of idealized antiquity and Renaissance art became--in the eyes of Byron, Keats, Shelley and a host of other visitors--a nation struggling to assert itself but not quite able to do so.
Italia Romantica is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy and of the changing attitudes in pre-unification Italy. Roderick Cavaliero's compelling story is full of bandits, unreformed Catholicism, poets, and...
More Description What had seemed to Grand Tourists a museum of idealized antiquity and Renaissance art became--in the eyes of Byron, Keats, Shelley and a host of other visitors--a nation struggling to assert itself but not quite able to do so.Italia Romantica is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy and of the changing attitudes in pre-unification Italy. Roderick Cavaliero's compelling story is full of bandits, unreformed Catholicism, poets, and improvvisatori, shot through with vignettes of timeless urban and pastoral life, remarkable characters, and anecdotes.