https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/127754 2026-04-15T09:04:29Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/128441 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 13-14 Authors: Vassallo, Peter; Lauri Lucente, Gloria Abstract: Table of Contents:; - Turning to Dante: Shelley's Adonais Reconsidered: Michael O'Neill; - The Journal of Samuel Rogers: An Alternative Version of Italy: Timothy Webb; - Beyond the Grand Tour: Unearthly Italy: Jane Stabler; - Julia Wedgwood on Robert Browning's 'Italian Murder Thing': Sue Brown; - 'The seed that we have sown will remain': Giuseppe Mazzini and the 'hero' of Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage: Rose Sneyd; - A Chief Secretary in Malta: Henry Lushington and the Italian Question: Petra Caruana Dingli; - Garibaldi and the Mille in the British press: Giovanni lamartino; - Sensational Artists of Italy: Mid-Victorian Variations of the Kiinstlerroman Plot: Mariaconcetta Costantini; - John Ruskin, D.H. Lawrence and an Idea of Italy: Michela Marroni; - A Victorian on the Continent: George Meredith's Response to Italy: Anna Enrichetta Soccio; ' ... a people so chained up': Frances Trollope and Italy: Francesca D'Alfonso; - 'Off the Beaten Track': Travel and Ontological Regeneration in Forster's A Room with a View: Tania Zulli; - 'Translating Dante's Divine Comedy.' An Interview with Robert Hollander by Gloria Lauri-Lucente: Robert Hollander and Gloria Lauri-Lucente; - Notes on Contributors 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/128440 Title: Turning to Dante : Shelley's Adonais reconsidered Authors: O'Neill, Michael Abstract: As often, if not always, in his agonistic creative relationship with Shelley, Byron just about got there first in terms of responding to something of the imaginative range offered by Dante's example, even if the roughly contemporaneous Prometheus Unbound is a more impressive instance of a comparable phenomenon. In The Prophecy of Dante, composed in 1819 but published in 1821, Byron writes from the persona of Dante: a bold move that allows for a sense of veiled autobiography. In places we suspect we are dealing with the Noble Lord as much as the Florentine poet. 'For I have been too long and deeply wreck' d / On the lone rock of desolate Despair' (I. 138-139) catches the throwing-it-all-to-the-winds cadence of for 'I have thought / Too long and darkly, till my brain became,/ In its own eddy boiling and o'er wrought,/ A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame' of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (3. 55-58). 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/128437 Title: The journal of Samuel Rogers : an alternative version of Italy Authors: Webb, Timothy Abstract: Nowadays Samuel Rogers is best known as the author of Italy, yet precisely what is meant by that title is often far from clear. The publication history of this poem, or more correctly this book, is unexpectedly complicated since over a number of years it appeared in several, rather different, versions with the result that it now has more than one bibliographical identity. The first volume appeared in 1822; the second, after three revised versions of the first, in 1828; and the justifiably celebrated illustrated edition in 1830. Yet Rogers and his publishers introduced changes (such as full-page illustrations of a farewell to Italy) at least as late as 1838 and 1839. Although Rogers liked to insist on the authenticity of Italy and its closeness to original experience, there was from the first a striking gap between the events which it chronicles and the record of the poem itself. Even the first volume had been published, anonymously if identifiably, some years after his first visit to a country which deeply impressed him and answered comfortably to many of his poetic and cultural preconceptions. This first volume does not include several poems which later formed part of the larger whole (specifically, 'Meillerie', 'St Maurice', 'The Brothers' and 'Bologna'); most significantly, perhaps, its earliest version contains none of the seven prose essays which at first disgruntled at least one critic but eventually constituted a generic counterpoint within the volume itself and allowed Rogers to include passages of historical narrative (in effect, short stories with a tendency towards the sentimental and the moralistic) and brief essays on subjects such as foreign travel and national prejudices. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/128433 Title: Beyond the Grand Tour : unearthly Italy Authors: Stabler, Jane Abstract: 'I have been between Heaven & earth since our arrival at Venice. The Heaven of it is ineffable-Never have I touched the skirts of so celestial a place' Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in in June 1851: 'The beauty of the architecture, the silver trails of water up between all that gorgeous colour & carving, the enchanting silence, the moonlight, the music, the gondolas.' Her notion of being in touch with both the divine and the earthly provides my way into the 'Beyond the Grand Tour' theme for this issue of the Anglo-Italian Journal. In this essay, I shall examine the peculiar way in which Romantic writers in Italy are drawn to the figures of enchantment as a way of testing how human craftsmanship might generate-in both positive and negative ways-the otherworldly or the unearthly. I am not, of course, claiming that Italy has a monopoly on ideas of the 'beyond': when Ruskin rhapsodises over the Simplon Pass and the Rhone's 'unearthly acqua-marine, ultramarine, violet-blue, gentian blue, peacock-blue, river of paradise blue, glass of a painted window meted in the sun', he veers joyously between earthly and unearthly images, but he is still on the other side of the Alps. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z