Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis , written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Its epistolary form is in the eighteenth-century tradition of novels like Clarissa Harlowe and the Nouvelle Heloise . Jacopo's tragic love for Teresa and his subsequent suicide recall The Sorrows of Young Werther . In addition to being an intensely political novel, this work also expresses the author's romantic conception of nature as a mirror of human emotions.
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Ugo Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis , written between 1799 and 1815, was the first true Italian novel. Its epistolary form is in the eighteenth-century tradition of novels like Clarissa Harlowe and the Nouvelle Heloise . Jacopo's tragic love for Teresa and his subsequent suicide recall The Sorrows of Young Werther . In addition to being an intensely political novel, this work also expresses the author's romantic conception of nature as a mirror of human emotions.
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