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Antonio Fogazzaro and Wilkie Collins

1961; Duke University Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1768679

1945-8517

Beatrice Corrigan,

Historical and Literary Analyses

HE INFLUENCE of French literature in Italy during the T nineteenth century was so pervasive and so widely acknowledged that, though Antonio Fogazzaro, one of the most important Italian novelists of his generation, made an eloquent appeal to his contemporaries to turn to England for their models rather than to France, his words seem to have gone almost unheeded. Critics have scarcely attempted to study in this novelist's own works the result of his affection for English authors.1 Fogazzaro first expressed his affection publicly in 1872 in his Discorso dell'avvenire del romanzo in Italia,2 which he delivered before the Accademia Olympica of Vicenza, in the course of which he deplored the basse aberrazioni of French realism, and spoke with warm admiration of the ability of Collins, Reade, and Mrs. Wood to charm their readers.