THE ROLE OF PIETRO CHIARI'S NOVELS IN DEVELOPMENT OF ITALIAN ROCOCO IN LITERATURE

Keywords: Pietro Chiari, XVIII century, rococo, Italy, Venice

Abstract

This article explores a cultural significance of novel “La Filosofessa Italiana” written in 1753 Pietro Chiari and regarded the first Italian novel of early modern period. The objective of this research is to elucidate a formation of a new literary genre in Italian literature in XVIII century. In the following piece of research, the most outstanding European novels of XVIII century are examined in comparison with Pietro Chiari’s novel. In the following work we analyze the influence that exercised P. Marivaux, S. Richardson, F. Prévost and D. Default’s novels on the genesis of a new genre of Italian literary Rococo. In this article we investigate the details of the plot of “La Filosofessa Italiana” and explore the mental focus that was exposed by the first writer of Italian Rococo in this novel.

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2021-06-10
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Danchenko, M. (2021). THE ROLE OF PIETRO CHIARI’S NOVELS IN DEVELOPMENT OF ITALIAN ROCOCO IN LITERATURE. International Journal of Innovative Technologies in Social Science, (2(30). https://doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ijitss/30062021/7596