{"id":2077,"date":"2008-04-02T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=2077"},"modified":"2022-02-15T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:38:15","slug":"2077_-the-influence-and-themes-of-italian-culture-in-english-and-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/2008\/04\/02\/2077_-the-influence-and-themes-of-italian-culture-in-english-and-american-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Influence and Themes of Italian Culture in English and American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, March 7, 2008 \u2013 guest speaker, Professor Emeritus of English Robert Lorenzi of Camden County College presented the lecture \u201cThe Influence and Themes of Italian Culture in English and American Literature\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The lecture planned with the English Dept. of Montclair University cited evidence of how the works of a great many American and English authors who works were influenced either directly by traveling and living in Italy or indirectly by reading about and knowing the history and culture and culture of Italy.<\/p>\n

A DVD of the lecture has been produced for use in schools and classroom.<\/p>\n

Professor Emeritus Robert Lorenzi of Camden County College has taught Italian Literature, World Literature, and American Literature. He is currently teaching literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University.<\/p>\n

He is the recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. In that same year he was honored by the Thomas Paine Society for his studies in early American literature.<\/p>\n

His interest in Dante and Nathaniel Hawthorne has led to his wider study of the Italian influence on American literature.<\/p>\n

Professor Lorenzi has lectured extensively throughout New Jersey, with additional appearances in Washington, D.C., Salem, Mass., and Brunswick, Maine. The subjects of his lectures include: Dante, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Paine, Franklin, Shakespeare, as well as popular culture lectures that range from Dracula, Salem Witches, Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper to Elvis Presley, bluegrass music, and the roots of country music in America.<\/p>\n

Italian Influence on Major American Writers<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a partial list<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Benjamin Franklin \u2013 \u201cRules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One\u201d<\/p>\n

(1775) \u2013 a satire based on Machiavelli<\/p>\n

Washington Irving \u2013 Notes of a Tour in Europe<\/em> (1804) \u2013 contains a description of Rome<\/p>\n

Tales of a Traveler<\/em> (1824) \u2013 sketches in Part III are set in Italy<\/p>\n

James Fennimore Cooper \u2013 The Bravo<\/em> (1831) \u2013 a Venetian story<\/p>\n

Gleanings in Europe: Italy<\/em> (1838)<\/p>\n

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow \u2013 translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante<\/em><\/p>\n

Alighieri<\/em> (1865-7)<\/p>\n

Founder of The Dante Society<\/p>\n

Edgar Allan Poe \u2013 Politian<\/em> (1835) \u2013 an Italian tragedy \u2013 his only play<\/p>\n

William Cullen Bryant \u2013 Letters of a Traveler<\/em> (1850) \u2013 includes his 1834 tour of Italy<\/p>\n

Ralph Waldo Emerson \u2013 translation of Dante\u2019s Vita Nuova<\/em> (1843)<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Hawthorne \u2013 Italian Notebook<\/em> (1858) \u2013 describes his years in Rome and his<\/p>\n

first view of the Faun of Praxiteles which inspired The Marble Faun<\/em> (1860)<\/p>\n

Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books<\/em> (not published until 1871)<\/p>\n

\u201cRappaccini\u2019s Daughter\u201d (1834) \u2013 short story set in Padua<\/p>\n

John Greenleaf Whittier \u2013 Miriam<\/em> (1871) \u2013 a book of poetry that contains a poem<\/p>\n

\u201cGaribaldi\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chapel of Hermits<\/em> (1853) – contains the poem \u201cThe Prisoner of Naples\u201d<\/p>\n

Harriet Beecher Stowe \u2013 Agnes of Sorrento <\/em>(1862) \u2013 a novel<\/p>\n

Herman Melville \u2013 poems: \u201cMilan Cathedral\u201d and \u201cNaples in the Time of Bomba\u201d<\/p>\n

(The Bourbon King Ferdinand)<\/p>\n

James Russell Lowell \u2013 a translation of I\u2019l Pesceballo<\/em> an Italian work (1862)<\/p>\n

Fireside Travels<\/em> (1864) – contains an essay \u201cItaly\u201d<\/p>\n

Among My Books<\/em> (1876) \u2013 contains an essay \u201cDante\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver Wendell Holmes \u2013 The Unity of Italy <\/em>(1871) \u2013 contains letters from Holmes,<\/p>\n

Whittier, Howells, James, and others<\/p>\n

William Dean Howells \u2013 Modern Italian Poets<\/em> (1887)<\/p>\n

Venetian Life<\/em> (1866)<\/p>\n

Italian Journeys<\/em> (1867)<\/p>\n

A Foregone Conclusion<\/em> (1875) \u2013 a novel set in Italy<\/p>\n

Indian Summer<\/em> (1886) \u2013 a novel set in Italy<\/p>\n

Henry James \u2013 \u201cEssay on Venice\u201d (1882)<\/p>\n

The Portrait of a Lady<\/em> (1881) \u2013 a novel set in England, France, and Italy<\/p>\n

Roderick Hudson<\/em> (1876) \u2013 a novel that describes the experiences of an<\/p>\n

American artist in Italy<\/p>\n

\u201cDaisy Miller\u201d (1879) \u2013 a short story set in Rome<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Aspern Papers\u201d (1888) \u2013 a novella set in Venice<\/p>\n

Italian Hours<\/em> (1909)<\/p>\n

Mark Twain \u2013 The Innocents Abroad<\/em> (1869)<\/p>\n

A Tramp Abroad<\/em>> (1880)<\/p>\n

Ernest Hemingway \u2013 \u201cIn Another Country\u201d \u2013 a short story set in a Milan hospital<\/p>\n

A Farewell to Arms<\/em> (1929) a novel set in northern Italy<\/p>\n

Across the River and Into the Trees<\/em> (1950) \u2013 a novel set in Venice<\/p>\n

F. Scott Fitzgerald \u2013 Tender Is the Night<\/em> (1934) \u2013 a novel, part of which is set in Italy<\/p>\n

Edith Wharton \u2013 The Valley of Decision<\/em> (1902)<\/p>\n

Crucial Instances<\/em> (1901) \u2013 contains two Italian short stories<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Duchess at Prayer\u201d and \u201cThe Confessional\u201d<\/p>\n

Italian Villas and Their Gardens<\/em> (1900)<\/p>\n

Italian Backgrounds<\/em> (1905)<\/p>\n

\u201cRoman Fever\u201d (1934) \u2013 a short story<\/p>\n

Sinclair Lewis \u2013 Dodsworth<\/em> (1928) \u2013 part set in Italy<\/p>\n

Keep Out of the Kitchen<\/em> (1929) \u2013 set near Lake Como<\/p>\n

World So Wide<\/em> (1950) \u2013 set in Florence<\/p>\n

Erza Pound \u2013 The Cantos \u2013 complete \u2013 published posthumously in 1987<\/p>\n

A Lume Spento<\/em> (1908) \u2013 \u201cwith tapers quenched\u201d \u2013 a volume of poetry \u2013 the title has to do with a mourning ceremony inspired by Dante<\/p>\n

Tennessee Williams \u2013 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone<\/em> (1950)<\/p>\n

The Rose Tattoo<\/em> (1951) \u2013 drama of a Sicilian colony in the Louisiana<\/p>\n

Bayou<\/p>\n

John Hersey \u2013 A Bell for Adano<\/em> (1944)<\/p>\n

Irving Stone \u2013 The Agony and The Ecstasy<\/em> (1961) \u2013 a fictional account of the<\/p>\n

life of Michelangelo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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