书名: Italia Romantica: English Romantics and Italian Freedom
作者: Roderick Cavaliero (Author)
出版社: I. B. Tauris (April 14, 2005)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1850434263
ISBN-13: 978-1850434269
Book Description
In the eyes of the English Romantics, Italy was not a nation but "Italia," a place inhabited by the ancient. 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. Italia Romantica is a vivid history of the English Romantics' love affair with Italy. Through the eyes of Romantic travellers and poets such as Byron, Keats and Shelley, a fascinating picture of pre-unification Italy emerges, struggling to recover after Napoleon and edging towards the Risorgimento. Here is the Italy of idealized antiquity, magnificent but crumbling, somewhat like a gigantic and rather run-down living museum. It is full of bandits, unreformed Catholicism, vignettes of urban and pastoral life, of memorable characters and anecdote.
About the Author
Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian, author of Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of the Bailiff de Suffren and Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire (both I.B.Tauris).
