Rebellion, Death and Aesthetics in Italy: The Demons of Scapigliatura

This book is a comparative approach that treats the formidable psychosexual and gothic content, as phrased through a rhetoric of rebellion, death, and illness, in the works of Ugo Tarchetti and others. Del Principe's psychoanalytic-feminist reinterpretation illuminates the scapigliati as precursors to modernism and the avant-garde.