The Great Lost Gothic Novel of Italian Romanticism

The Great Lost Gothic Novel of Italian Romanticism

I found Francesco Mastriani in a footnote. This is how it usually goes with the writers who deserve better. I was reading through a survey of the European sensation novel—one of those dense academic accounts that traces the movement from Collins through Dickens through the French serialists—when his name appeared in a subordinate clause, almost apologetically: Mastriani, the Neapolitan novelist, who reached a readership of extraordinary breadth …