Book description
" Salvator Rosa (1615--1673) was a colorful and controversial
Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific
correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings,
especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime,
appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on
several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes
Rosa's tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the
nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honor? de Balzac, Victor Hugo,
George Sand, and Th?ophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order,
with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art
criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works,
Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the
reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters.
James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University,
is the author of D?rer in French Letters. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
"An exhaustive and meticulous... survey of French references
to 17th-century Italian artist/poet Salvator
Rosa....Recommended." -- Choice
