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    • Corinne, or Italy

    1807 novel by Germaine de Staël

    Lady Edgermond sends away the Italian musicians, whose music reminds Corinne of Italy. Engraving by G. Staal for an 1857 reprint.

    AuthorGermaine de Staël
    Original titleCorinne ou l'Italie
    LanguageFrench

    Publication date

    		1807
    Publication placeFrance

    Corinne, or Italy (French: Corinne ou l'Italie), also known as Corinne, is a novel by the Genevan and French writer Germaine de Staël, published in 1807. It relates a love story between an Italian poet, Corinne, and Lord Oswald Nelvil, an English nobleman. The novel includes both observations and reflections on Italy, its history, its culture and the customs of its inhabitants. Influenced by Enlightenment thought, the novel is part of the French romanticism movement. The novel is Madame de Staël's most famous work, and is the first aesthetic romance not written in German.

    Background to the book

    Madame de Staël had been inte