Ugo Foscolo's Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis - A Translation

Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Its epistolary form is in the eighteenth-century tradition of novels like Clarissa Harlowe and the Nouvelle Heloise. Jacopo's tragic love for Teresa and his subsequent suicide recall The Sorrows of Young Werther. In addition to being an intensely political novel, this work also expresses the author's romantic conception of nature as a mirror of human emotions.

Product details

• Authors: Ugo Foscolo
• Assisted by: Douglas Radcliff-Umstead (Translation)
• Publisher: UNC Department of Romance Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9780807890899
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9089-9
• No. of pages: 166
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 251 g
• Series: North Carolina Studies in the
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies