Fabio Camilletti: 3 books
The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890
Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help...
Portrait of Beatrice
Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the...
Leopardi's Nymphs
Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"How can one make poetry in a disenchanted age? For Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) this was the modern subject's most insolvable deadlock, after the Enlightenment's pitiless unveiling of truth. Still, in the poems written in 1828-29 between Pisa and the Marches, Leopardi manages to turn disillusion...