“The looking-glass is not to blame if your own face is plain” - Saying, from Nikolai Gogol’s Government Inspector Orwell, Gogol, Chavchavadze - criticizing society primarily or in a hidden way became popular among classical writers. Highlighting...

From the second half of the 19th century, a mythical version of Italy took hold of the European collective imagination. In the mind of foreign Romantic writers, Italy became the symbol of the glorious past and the place of landscapes of romance....