Table of Contents:
  • Italy's ambivalent modernity
  • Genus italicum
  • Did Italian romanticism exist?
  • Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staθel, and Foscolo
  • The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism
  • Heirs of a dark wood
  • Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire
  • Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self
  • Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity
  • Corpus italicum
  • Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi
  • The body of Parini
  • Italy's broken heart.