I. Meeting with Delphine Gay – Vallombrosa – Antoir and Jocelyn

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I
6. I. Lamartine’s Childhood – First Impressions of the Italian Poets – Tasso and the Jerusalem Delivered 5
7. II. College friends of Lamartine – His impressions of Ariosto and Alfieri – Corinne ou l’ ltalie 10
8. III. Early love affairs – Lamartine sent to Italy – His impressions of Italian manners, and of Italian university life 15
9. IV. Lamartine and the Countess of Albany – Visit to Tasso’s sepulchre 22
10. V. Lamartine at Naples – Graziella – Italian origin of Le Crucifix 28
11. Part II
12. I. Return of Lamartine to France – The Saul of Alfieri and of Lamartine 45
13. II. La Mort de Jonathas – Jacopo Ortis and I sepolcri of Foscolo 59
14. III. Julia’s death and Lamartine’s imitations of Petrarch – His ideas of colonization – His marriage – Rome and Naples 64
15. IV. Lamartine and “The Carbonari” – Meeting with Gioacchino Rossini – Amalfi and the so-called Calabrian song 72
16. V. “La sentinella” – Lamartine and the Duchess of Devonshire 82
17. VI. Lamartine and Charles Albert – The Cinque Maggio of Manzoni and Bonaparte of Lamartine 90
18. Part III
19. I. Meeting with Delphine Gay – Vallombrosa – Antoir and Jocelyn 99
20. II. The Fifth Canto of Childe Harold – Giuseppe Giusti – Lamartine’s duel with Gabriele Pepe 105
21. III. La Perte de l’Anio – Lamartine and the Princess Aldobrandini 113
22. IV. The literary friends of “ Varramista” – Sojourn at Leghorn – The Countess of Saluzzo 119
23. V. Lamartine and Alessandro Manzoni – Angelica Palli – Visit to Ferrara 124
24. VI. Les harmonies poétiques et religieuses 130
25. VII. Direct influence of Italy on the Harmonies 138
26. VIII. Lamartine’s correspondence and the chronology of his life 144
27. IX. Lamartine’s old age – Dante and Petrarch in the Cours familier de littérature – Originality of Lamartine 149
28. Bibliography 157