...Susanna F. Ferlito Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Susanna F. Ferlito is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota. She has finished a book-length manuscript, Topographies of Desire: Manzoni, Cultural Practices, and Colonial Scars , and is working...

... by the emergence of the historical novel in Victor Hugo, Alessandro Manzoni, and Walter Scott as well as by the development of literary realism proper in such novelists as Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, and Emile Zola. It is striking, how- ever, to note the often unexpected manner in which the concepts...

... on at least three inceptive impressions or motifs. Since “death” was one of the foremost themes of Poe’s narratives, it is not surprising that the poet, as Cortell King Holsapple’ convincingly pointed out, gained from Alessandro Manzoni’s novel I Promessi Sposi decisive information about...

... be conceived of as a comedy without the knowledge of Lessing’s theoretical basis for his work : Gottsched‘s Poetics. Reto R. Bezzola, “Manzonis dichterische Gestaltung des Leidens” (pp. 113-26), reduces a little artificially Manzoni’s work to the Christian concept of suffering and tries...

... with acumen that this play never can be conceived of as a comedy without the knowledge of Lessing’s theoretical basis for his work : Gottsched‘s Poetics. Reto R. Bezzola, “Manzonis dichterische Gestaltung des Leidens” (pp. 113-26), reduces a little artificially Manzoni’s work to the Christian...

... : Discours sur Zes Sci- ences et les '4rts. New York: The Modern Language Association of Amer- ica, Monograph Series XV; London: Oxford University Press, 1946. Pp. xiii 4- 278. ITALIAN De Simonc, Joseph Francis. Alessandro Manzoni : Esthetics...

... for Napoleon, Lamartine and Barbier preached against the despot and dictator whose wars had cost France the prime of her manho0d.O Outside of France, the majority of the European poets pro- claimed the Napoleonic glory. The Italian Manzoni, the Pole Micke- wicz, the Russian Lermontoff...

... pp. L. 2500. It is J. H. Whitfield’s opinion-for which he is duly praised by G. Singh (p. 148)-that Manzoni has proved to be an unexportable Italian literary product, whereas Leopardi has achieved an ever greater recognition beyond Italy’s shores. There is some truth...

.... ARTHURSHERBO Michigan State Uniuersity Leo/m-cli e l’lnghilteim. 13y G.Smcti. Firenze: Le Monriier, 1968. ix -k 225 pp. L. 2500. It is J. H. Whitfield’s opinion-for which he is duly praised by G. Singh (p. 148)-that Manzoni has proved to be an unexportable Italian literary...

... 1’Editore ha arricchito le pagine sui lavori di Dante, Cer- vantes, Goethe, Shelley, Byron, Manzoni di bellissime illustrazioni bianche e nere e a colori, oltre alle dettagliatissime informazioni biografiche e critiche. Nel caso degli scrittori maggiori persino i lavori pih...

... particolarmente e degnamente importante i: dato ai “Grandi” delle varie letterature, e 1’Editore ha arricchito le pagine sui lavori di Dante, Cer- vantes, Goethe, Shelley, Byron, Manzoni di bellissime illustrazioni bianche e nere e a colori, oltre alle dettagliatissime informazioni...

... research into Goethe’s reception of novelists as diverse as Sterne and Cooper or Manzoni and Diderot is of little use. On the contrary, it shows conclusively that Goethe’s interest in such a variety of CLAKK S. MUENZEK 205 works was based...

... Emerson’s major illustration of holiness is drawn from literature- unexpectedly enough, from an episode (Englished, I gather, by Emer- son) in Manzoni’s novel, I Promessi Sposi. And Bishop finds the clearest traces of the active Emersonian soul by applying what he calls “the literary test.” He...

... in spite of the limits set) contributions of Romance philologians in the first part of the nineteenth century are negligible. But the same does not hold true for creative writers-of whatever century-who have dealt with their own language: Manzoni, Bembo, Dante who wrote De uulgari eloquentia...

..., Ireland 4 See my paper “Goethe and Huttner” in the forthcoming issue of MLR. 6 On other instances where Goethe placed his translation side by side with the English text, see my paper “Goethe and an English Critic of Manzoni,” Moncrts- krfte, XXXIX (1M7), 7 ff. ...

...: ,4 Yrefiice to the “O1.l(intlo Furioso.” Edin1,urgh: Edinburgh LJniversity I’rcss, Writers of Italy, I, 1974. viii + 206 pp. 52.50. Ch;indler, S. H. .4lesstintlro Manzoni: The Story of’(I Spiritual Quest. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Writers of Italy, 2, 1974. 139 pp. E2.50. (h...

... and translator). CMine and His Critics: Scandals and Parado.u. Saratoga, Calif.: Anma Libri, Stanford French and I talian Studies, 44, 1986. ix + 223 pp. $25.00. Lucen te, Gregory L. Beaut$Ll Fables: Self-consciousness in Italian Narrative from Manzoni to Calvino. Baltimore and London: Johns...

.... The Modern Italian Novel: From Manzoni to Suevo. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press; London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques, 1967. xv + 199 pp. $4.95. Predmore, Richard L. The World of Don Quixote. Cambridge: Harvard University Press...

... us find comfort in the fact that for sixty-six more years this century will be the only one to speak and to present its views.] Leopardi’s screed against statistics is part of his critique of political economy. He joined thinkers like the great Romantic novelist Alessandro Manzoni—though...

... 371 Susanna F. Ferlito is associate professor of Italian at the University of Minnesota and author of Topographies of Desire: Manzoni, Cultural Practices, and Colonial Scars (2000). She is writing a book on cultural, literary, and medical sensibilities in nineteenth-­century Europe. Her...