Amore nell'arte by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
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Amore nell'arte by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. It probes the knot between love and art, setting lofty ideals against bodily desire and social convention. The first tale centers on the gifted musician Lorenzo Alviati, whose pursuit of the beautiful—and of impossible, purified love—pushes him and those around him toward suffering and obsession. The opening of the collection recounts the narrator’s school-days
friendship with the striking Lorenzo in Valenza, set against vivid scenes of the Po valley. Years later they reunite, and Lorenzo confesses that art has eclipsed earthly love; he relates his disillusioning affair with Regina and his tender bond with the ailing Adalgisa, whose waning life awakens in him a rare, idealized devotion. Through letters, the narrator then charts Lorenzo’s descent: unable to unite ideal beauty with the body, he transfers desire to pure forms (the Venus de’ Medici) and slides into ruinous self-absorption and madness. The section concludes as a new tale, Riccardo Waitzen, begins with an epigraph and questions about imagination and the blurred line between fantasy and reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tarchetti, Iginio Ugo, 1841-1869 |
|---|---|
| Title | Amore nell'arte |
| Original Publication | Milano: Treves, 1869. |
| Contents | Lorenzo Alviati -- Riccardo Waitzen -- Bouvard. |
| Credits | Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense - Milano) |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Short stories, Italian |
| Subject | Italian fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77121 |
| Release Date | Oct 25, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 247 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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