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After the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento), the focus shifts to the harsh reality of the new state.

The struggle to find a "national voice" while constantly looking toward Paris, London, and Berlin for the latest philosophical and stylistic innovations. Storia europea della letteratura italiana - III...

He creates the modern Italian novel ( I Promessi Sposi ), adopting the historical realism of Walter Scott but infusing it with Catholic morality and linguistic unity. After the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento), the focus

He represents the peak of "Cosmic Pessimism." His Zibaldone places him in dialogue with thinkers like Schopenhauer and Byron, moving from local patriotism to a universal meditation on the human condition. 3. The Realist Turn and National Identity (Post-1860) He represents the peak of "Cosmic Pessimism

Giovanni Verga takes the French Naturalism of Zola and adapts it to the dry, brutal landscape of Sicily ( I Malavoglia ).

The story begins with the collapse of the Ancien Régime . Italian writers like and Ugo Foscolo are no longer just "letterati" (men of letters) but "prophets" of a new nation.