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Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Its epistolary form is in the eighteen...

Saddened with his country’s loss of freedom, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university student Jacopo Ortis can ...

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English l...