Book contents
- The Italian Idea
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- The Italian Idea
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Short Titles and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Italians and the ‘Public Mind’ before 1815
- Chapter 2 London 1816
- Chapter 3 London 1817–1819
- Chapter 4 Veneto 1817–1819
- Chapter 5 London and Naples, 1819–1821
- Chapter 6 Pisa 1820–1822
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
- The Italian Idea
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- The Italian Idea
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Short Titles and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Italians and the ‘Public Mind’ before 1815
- Chapter 2 London 1816
- Chapter 3 London 1817–1819
- Chapter 4 Veneto 1817–1819
- Chapter 5 London and Naples, 1819–1821
- Chapter 6 Pisa 1820–1822
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
On 1 August 1814, thousands watched the St. James’s Park display in which John Nash turned the ‘Castle of Discord’ in to the ‘Temple of Concord’. People also lined the streets for the formal Triumphs to celebrate victory in the Napoleonic Wars. These events formed the centrepiece of the Regent’s Grand Jubilee to mark victory in Europe and a century of Hanoverian rule.1 Events at Waterloo were cause for further celebration: church bells rang out on 18 June 1815. In August of the same year, Wordsworth climbed to the top of Skiddaw where he ate plum pudding, drank rum punch, sang the national anthem, and toasted British victory.2 But despite the widespread jubilation at the end of twenty-two years of war, 1815 saw a renewed fervour in the radical voice against the state.
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- The Italian IdeaAnglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823, pp. 1 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020