Alfieri Revisited.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Alfieri Revisited. Ed. by JOHN LINDON. (Supplement to The Italianist, 21) Reading: Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading. 2001. 80 pp. 12 [pounds sterling]. ISSN 0261-4340.

This supplement to The Italianist finds its timely niche among the numerous celebratory events precipitated in 1999 all over the cultural globe both by the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth and by the rapidly approaching 200th anniversary of his death (Florence, October 1803). As stated by the editor, John Lindon, the volume gathers 'papers presented at an international study-day organized by University College London's Centre for Italian Studies' (p. 5). It is not by chance that this celebratory event took place in England; rather, on the one hand, this becomes a further testimonial to the interest and affection the poet had for this country (that he was not alone in this is of course a well-known fact, and to this purpose it should suffice to mention the well-documented and still valid study of...

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