Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna: Series, Journals and Workshop
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Abstract
Victorian Irish novelist Charles Lever spent much of his adult lifeliving in Italy and in the partly Italian city of Trieste, serving asBritish Vice-Consul in La Spezia and later as Consul in Trieste. Heused his experience and knowledge of Italy as the source for manyarticles and as raw material for the Italian sections of his novels. Heis one of the most acute observers of Italian life at the time of theunification of Italy but his experience in il bel paese also played a keyrole in forming his views about the Ireland that continued to be thecentral interest of his fiction
