Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (Hesperus Classics)

by Ugo Foscolo

Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Foreword) and J. G. Nichols (Translator)

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Saddened with his country's loss of freedom, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university student Jacopo Ortis can only find some comfort in the company of his friends and in his love for Teresa. But when his studies call him back to Padua and he is separated from her, Jacopo's torments become unbearable, and he feels that there is only one way out of his misery - a symbolic gesture against fate, God and all the tyrants of this world.

Allegedly based on the real-life tragic story of the Italian student Girolamo Ortis, and suffused with the author's own autobiographical experiences, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a masterly prose work by one of Italy's most celebrated poets, and perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the Romantic movement.
  • ISBN13 9781843910022
  • Publish Date 1 July 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 22 August 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Hesperus Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 176
  • Language English