Posljednja pisma Jakopa Ortisa – prvi epistolarni roman italijanske književne tradicije
THE LAST LETTERS OF JACOPO ORTIS IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT – THE FIRST EPISTOLARY NOVEL OF THE ITALIAN LITERARY TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the analysis of the first epistolary novel of the Italian literary tradition, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo, work which, thanks to its polyvalent character, both in content and form, occupies a significant place in the rich European literary context. The genre debut of the Italian literary tradition is positioned in a very complex literary panorama in the beginning of the 19th century, as a follower of Rousseau's The New Eloise, Richardson's Pamela, and above all Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, a work that is its closest European reference point in terms of composition and content. The polyvalent philosophical and artistic character of Foscolo's novel, its content stratification that reflects not only the intimate confession of the individual, but also the collective dilemmas of the then still ununited Italy in the complex cultural-historical mosaic of Europe of that time, however, are not in artistic collision with the unquestionable thematic and formal closeness between Foscolo's novel and its models in the European context - they only testify in a unique way, in a strong metatextual dialogue, complementary to the universal literary-ideological value of The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis.

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