Written as an epistolary monologue, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a compelling portrayal of a troubled mind. Published here for the first time in the English

A unique edition of a masterly prose work by one of Italy's most celebrated poets, and perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the Romantic movement. Saddened wit

Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH ON FOSCOLO -- TO THE READER -- LAST LETTERS OF JACOPO OR

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A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War