Contemporary Seicento: On the Dark Background of the Italian Historical Novel

Contemporary Seicento: On the Dark Background of the Italian Historical Novel

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While the historical novel is a product of European Romanticism, the first Italian historical novel expresses the critical awareness of its origin against the dark background of the Seicento.For the historical and political imagination of the Italian Romanticism, here the Seicento represents the Middle Age of modernity, namely the obscurity of the contemporary.From the dark background of the Seicento the Italian taylor te400 historical novel draws stories that reflect on the obscurity of its own time.In particular, my essay examines a selection of contemporary texts that show the continued and critical presence of the Seicento in the Italian historical novel.