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Article: Gabriele Rossetti's Rigors of Rome: a translation.
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Article date:
- December 22, 1990
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Introduction
Gabriele Rossetti (1785-1854), the father of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, remains a powerful background figure in the study of Victorian poetry. Although he is commonly alluded to as a "Neapolitan exile," he was actually born in Vasto in Abruzzo Citeriore. He is a notable figure in Italian history and literature, and many streets and boulevards in his native country have been named in his honor. Upon his death, his son Dante Gabriel composed the poignant sonnet "On thy Bowed Head, My Father, Fell the Night." (For an in-depth study of this poem, see my essay "Gabriele Rossetti: 'On thy Bowed Head, My Father, Fell the Night'," in The Journal ...