Review of Leigh Hunt’s A Legend of Florence

The reviewer compares Hunt’s storytelling to the style of an Italian improvisatore.

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English
Publication Title:
The Athenaeum
Article Title:
Review of Leigh Hunt’s A Legend of Florence
Page Numbers:
138
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Issue No. 642, 15 February 1840
Publisher:
Eastburn’s Press
Place of Publication:
Boston
Date Published:
1840

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He has, however, produced a drama of romantic interest and beauty, in which the incidents of the Legend are presented on the stage with picturesque elegance; leaving an impression like the recital of the story by an Italian improvisatore: in short, it is dramatic romance with a mixture of poetical comedy.

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