Crossing the Alps -- Toward romanticism -- Enter Lady Morgan -- Lady Morgan's legacy -- Rosa and the major romantics -- Criticism, scholarship, and journalism, 1824-ca. 1860 -- A fading beacon
"Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa's tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological o
