Book contents
- The Italian Idea
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- The Italian Idea
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Short Titles and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Italians and the ‘Public Mind’ before 1815
- Chapter 2 London 1816
- Chapter 3 London 1817–1819
- Chapter 4 Veneto 1817–1819
- Chapter 5 London and Naples, 1819–1821
- Chapter 6 Pisa 1820–1822
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Chapter 5 - London and Naples, 1819–1821
An Almost Revolutionary Queen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
- The Italian Idea
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- The Italian Idea
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Short Titles and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Italians and the ‘Public Mind’ before 1815
- Chapter 2 London 1816
- Chapter 3 London 1817–1819
- Chapter 4 Veneto 1817–1819
- Chapter 5 London and Naples, 1819–1821
- Chapter 6 Pisa 1820–1822
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
So far, this study has highlighted the growing interest radical and liberal writers showed in Italian literature in the aftermath of Waterloo. The work of exiled Italians in London and British writers in Italy played a significant role in intensifying the Regency’s fascination with Italy and Italian culture. These writers’ interest in Italian ideas flourished beside other interactions taking place in London, such as the promotion of Italian literature in the lectures of Hazlitt and Coleridge. In the first of his lectures on the English poets, Hazlitt claimed that Boccaccio, alongside Bunyan and Defoe, was the closest that prose had to the ‘essence and the power of poetry’, and that Dante was ‘the father of modern poetry’.1 Coleridge gave thorough consideration to Ariosto, Tasso, and Boccaccio in the third of his 1818 lectures on European literature and devoted the tenth lecture of this series to Dante.
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- The Italian IdeaAnglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823, pp. 116 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020