Editing Romanticism (section)

===Italy===
[[File:Isabella di Morra.jpg|thumb|Italian poet [[Isabella di Morra]], sometimes cited as a precursor of Romantic poets<ref>Gaetana Marrone, Paolo Puppa, ''Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A–J'', [[Taylor & Francis]], 2007, p. 1242</ref>]]
Romanticism in Italian literature was a minor movement although some important works were produced; it began officially in 1816 when [[Germaine de Staël]] wrote an article in the journal ''Biblioteca italiana'' called "Sulla maniera e l'utilità delle traduzioni", inviting Italian people to reject [[Neoclassicism]] and to study new authors from other countries. Before that date, [[Ugo Foscolo]] had already published poems anticipating Romantic themes. The most important Romantic writers were [[Ludovico di Breme]], Pietro Borsieri and [[Giovanni Berchet]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Companion to European Romanticism|last=Garofalo|first=Piero|publisher=Blackwell|year=2005|editor-last=Ferber|editor-first=Michael|location=London|pages=238–255|chapter=Italian Romanticisms}}</ref> Better known authors such as [[Alessandro Manzoni]] and [[Giacomo Leopardi]] were influenced by [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] as well as by Romanticism and Classicism.<ref>{{cite book|title=La nuova enciclopedia della letteratura|publisher=Garzanti|location=Milan|year=1985|page=829}}</ref> An Italian romanticist writer who produced works in various genres, including short stories and novels (such as ''Ricciarda o i Nurra e i Cabras''), was the Piedmontese [[Giuseppe Botero]] (1815–1885), devoting much of his career to [[Sardinian literature]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marci |first1=Giuseppe |title=Scrittori Sardi |date=December 2013 |publisher=Center for Sardinian Philological Studies / CUEC |location=Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Italy |isbn=978-88-8467-859-1 |page=183 |url=https://diazilla.com/doc/1032231/opere---centro-di-studi-filologici-sardi |access-date=14 July 2022 |language=Italian |archive-date=19 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319212952/https://diazilla.com/doc/1032231/opere---centro-di-studi-filologici-sardi |url-status=live }}</ref>