The Influence of Italy on the Literary Career of Alphonse De Lamartine / Agide Pirazzini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pirazzini, Agide, author.

Series:

Columbia University Studies in Romance Philology and Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--French and Italian.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Italian and French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1917]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Traces the Italian influences on the literature of Alphonse de Lamartine from the time of his early adolescence to the end of his literary career while writing the Cours Familier de Litterature ten to twelve years prior to his death.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Part I

I. Lamartine's Childhood - First Impressions of the Italian Poets - Tasso and the Jerusalem Delivered

II. College friends of Lamartine - His impressions of Ariosto and Alfieri - Corinne ou l' ltalie

III. Early love affairs - Lamartine sent to Italy - His impressions of Italian manners, and of Italian university life

IV. Lamartine and the Countess of Albany - Visit to Tasso's sepulchre

V. Lamartine at Naples - Graziella - Italian origin of Le Crucifix

Part II

I. Return of Lamartine to France - The Saul of Alfieri and of Lamartine

II. La Mort de Jonathas - Jacopo Ortis and I sepolcri of Foscolo

III. Julia's death and Lamartine's imitations of Petrarch - His ideas of colonization - His marriage - Rome and Naples

IV. Lamartine and "The Carbonari" - Meeting with Gioacchino Rossini - Amalfi and the so-called Calabrian song

V. "La sentinella" - Lamartine and the Duchess of Devonshire

VI. Lamartine and Charles Albert - The Cinque Maggio of Manzoni and Bonaparte of Lamartine

Part III

I. Meeting with Delphine Gay - Vallombrosa - Antoir and Jocelyn

II. The Fifth Canto of Childe Harold - Giuseppe Giusti - Lamartine's duel with Gabriele Pepe

III. La Perte de l'Anio - Lamartine and the Princess Aldobrandini

IV. The literary friends of " Varramista" - Sojourn at Leghorn - The Countess of Saluzzo

V. Lamartine and Alessandro Manzoni - Angelica Palli - Visit to Ferrara

VI. Les harmonies poétiques et religieuses

VII. Direct influence of Italy on the Harmonies

VIII. Lamartine's correspondence and the chronology of his life

IX. Lamartine's old age - Dante and Petrarch in the Cours familier de littérature - Originality of Lamartine

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89464-3

OCLC:

1100455279