Graziella

by Alphonse de Lamartine

Book Overview

In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period

In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar factory--and whose death after he returned to France would haunt him throughout his writing life. Graziella,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517902487
• ISBN13: 9781517902483
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"