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Anno IX , n° 1, Giugno 1991 ( Contributi ) pag. 43-52

THE ROLE OF ROME IN
HAWTHORNE'S THE MARBLE FAUN AND
HENRY JAMES'S DAISY MILLER
GEORGE BISZTRAY
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
When Nathaniel Hawthorne arrived in Rome with his family on January 20, 1858, he found an anachronistic baroque city. It was the capital of the Papal State whose head had asked for French aid nine years before to put down a popular uprising. In the eighteen-fifties and sixties Rome was still ruled by an intolerant clergy that could preserve and exert its authority only by the continued presence of the occupying forces of Napoleon III, the pompous and unpopular French emperor. [...]
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