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Ugo Foscolo and English Culture, PDF eBook

Ugo Foscolo and English Culture PDF

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"The history of the literary relations between Italy and England has its most celebrated early modern representative in Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827).

Foscolo's translation of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy is often regarded as the benchmark of his English experience, but there is more - around and beyond his relationship with Sterne - that can be uncovered.

With over 3,000 letters spanning three decades, Foscolo's correspondence represents a unique perspective from which to monitor his literary, philosophical, and political views.

The 'Epistolario' is also a space in which Foscolo engages with literary, philosophical, and moral questions, and a place where he exercises an often private form of literary criticism.

These are letters which ultimately produce one of the most complete yet most composite self-portraits in the history of modern Italian autobiography.

In the first comprehensive and historicized reading of Foscolo's correspondence, Sandra Parmegiani reveals the rich and complex relations between the Italian writer and the literature, philosophy, and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England."

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