258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

Lara Gochin Raffaelli has produced an expert new English translation of a masterpiece of Italian literature. L'Innocente (1892) is a psychological novel by the renowned Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in fin-de-siècle Rome and the southern Italian countryside, the story revolves around Tullio Hermil, a man entangled in his own moral failings. The novel delves into the psychological... Read more

Translator's Foreword - Lara Gochin Raffaelli

Critical Introduction - Michael J. Subialka

Innocence [1892]

Appendix - Comparisons between Raffaelli's translation and the Victorian ones

Biography

Lara Gochin Raffaelli holds a PhD in Italian Literature, specialising in Gabriele D’Annunzio and Maria Messina. Her translation of D'Annunzio’s Pleasure was published in 2013. Recent works include contributions to The Oxford Handbook of Decadence (2022) and a special edition of Forum Italicum (2017).

Michael J. Subialka is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian and Director of Graduate Study for Comparative Literature at the University California, Davis, USA.