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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XIX , n° 2, Dicembre 2001 ( Contributi ) pag. 48-64
TERESA CARNIANI MALVEZZI AND VINCENZO MONTI
NATALIA COSTA-ZALESSOW
Professor Emerita,
San Francisco State University,
San Francisco, California
Teresa Carniani Malvezzi (1785-1859), whose family life and
correspondence with her famous uncle Giovanni Fabbroni (1752-
1822) I examined in an article published in Rivista di Studi Italiani, was scrutinized in the past by scholars for her relationship with the poet Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828) - a friendship that was, however, misinterpreted. Based on the isolated reading of a partially preserved correspondence, available in Monti's Epistolario1, the impression was created that there was a sentimental meaning in many of the sentences exchanged between the two. Critics were only too eager to see in Malvezzi a passionate lady and not an intelligent woman aspiring to become a poet. But if one reads these very same letters within the context of messages exchanged by Malvezzi and Monti with others or with those of their common friends, keeping in mind the important historical events of the late Napoleonic period followed by Restoration, the picture that emerges is quite different and more coherent. [...]
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