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...fictional opportunities of Italy's centuries with the relative emptiness of America's raw democracy: Italy, as the site of his Romance, was chiefly valuable...affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...

...of location, this time to the question of why he has chosen Italy as the site of his romance: |It| was chiefly valuable to him as affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon, as they are, and must needs be, in America. No...

...and did not purpose attempting a portraiture of Italian manners and character. He has lived too long abroad not to be aware that a foreigner seldom acquires...profound, which may justify him in endeavoring to idealcongenial and easily handled themes, either in the annals of our stalwart republic, or in any...

...accurate novelistic presentation of a people in its society. He observed that he had "lived too long abroad not to be aware that a foreigner seldom acquires...justify him in endeavoring to idealize its traits." Does this not imply that if he chose, he might have written realistically when his subject was his...

...himself in the third person in his own preface, identifies a necessary a link between Europe and form: Italy, as the site of his Romance, was chiefly valuable...affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...

...and did not purpose attempting a portraiture of Italian manners and character. He has lived too long abroad not to be aware that a. foreigner seldom acquires...affording a sort of poetic or fairy precinct, where actualities would not be so terribly insisted upon as they are, and must needs be, in America. No author,...