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  • Chapter 15 - The Italian Romantics and Madame de Staël

  • John Claiborne Isbell, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
  • Book:
    Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
    Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 173-184

  • Summary

    Italy’s Romantic debate was literary in name only: In Napoleon’s aftermath, Italy had to be reinvented. Chapter 15 reviews Staël’s 1816 Italian articles, which cut to the heart of this debate – hence an immediate impact that dwarfs that of her friends Schlegel and Sismondi. The shape of Europe underlies this discussion, and Staël, with firsthand knowledge from London to Moscow, is in large part responsible for that scope. This chapter retraces the impact of Staël and her writings on every major Italian Romantic, in the highly charged atmosphere of Austrian-occupied Milan after Waterloo. Stendhal’s career as a writer begins in this matrix, a European architecture unthinkable without Staël’s visit. How sweet to see that grand architecture resurface.