“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love

2020/03/28 by Francesca Pierini · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Decadence, Literature, and Society #European Political History Analysis #Historical Art and Culture Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.70138/icpi2621

openalex publication_date 2020/03/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/06

Abstract

[End Page 1] This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to shed light on a discourse of pure origins and unbroken continuity that concerns ‘Italy’ as a cultural construct.[1] Within both narratives, ‘falling in love in Italy’ occasions the appropriation of

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