| Summary: | This doctoral dissertation deals with the theme of Italian historical novel in 1827-1840. The first, methodological part presents its premises and summarizes the present research about historical novel in Italian literary history. The second part introduces the contemporary context, the most relevant concepts of the debate that concerns the historical novel, and points out the possible influence of W. Scott; also the most typical themes, motifs and characters during the productive period of genre. The third, analytical part presents seven representative historical novels where the distinctive features are analyzed: e.g. historical settings, spatiotemporal relations and their author's intentions, relation between history and fiction, tools for emphasizing the truthfulness and plausibility of the story's plot, relation author-narrator-reader. The fourth, synthetic part tries to summarize the possible novel stereotypes, especially category of point of view and author's interventions, intentions of spatiotemporal settings, connection between history and fiction, the main structural lines, motifs and features and the most distinctive characters.
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