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Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881)

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A discourse on the relationship between religion and culture in fin de siècle Italy would not be complete without consideration of the works and activity of Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911). Fogazzaro was the writer who brought to the forefront, and to a wider public, the debate on the problems of contemporary religion in Italy. He was a writer who should be given credit, as Paolo Rossi demonstrated (Rossi 1977), for his attempt to update the Christian vision of the world to the needs of modernity. Fogazzaro’s aims took their expression in his successful novels and also through his activity as public lecturer and essay writer and, later in life, through his work as a religious reformer.

An earlier version of this chapter appeared as “Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881),” published in Italian Studies 68(2), 2013. www.maneypublishing.com/journals/its and www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/its.

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Santovetti, O. (2014). Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881). In: De Donno, F., Gilson, S. (eds) Beyond Catholicism. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342034_8

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