In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romanti…
The educational legacy of Romanticism
<Span><span>Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Origins Matter</span><span> delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging n…
Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conce…