Giuseppe Rovani (12 January 1818–26 January 1874) was an Italian novelist and essayist. Rovani was born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

. He was known for criticism of historical novels of the Romantic style, which were popular in Italy at the time and whose stereotypes and old fashioned plots he pointed out. He wrote ''Lamberto Malatesta ''(1843), ''Valenzia Candiano ''(1843) and'' Manfredo Pallavicino ''(1845-1846). He took part in the Italian

Risorgimento The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...

and was a forerunner of the Milanese

Scapigliatura ''Scapigliatura'' () is the name of an artistic movement that developed in Italy after the Risorgimento period (1815–71). The movement included poets, writers, musicians, painters and sculptors. The term Scapigliatura is the Italian equivalent of ...

.Garbin, Barbara (2006)
"Giuseppe Rovani (1818–1874)"
''Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies'', Vol. 1, pp. 1627–1629. Routledge. In 1859 he was part of a consortium of writers who co-edited the newspaper Gazzetta di Milano. His masterwork is the novel '' Cento Anni'' (1859-1864) which, together with

Ippolito Nievo Ippolito Nievo (; 30 November 1831 – 4 March 1861) was an Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His ''Confessions of an Italian'' is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento. Life Nievo was born and raised in ...

's '' Confessioni di un italiano'', had an important impact on the evolution of Italian literature. Giuseppe Rovani grave Milan 2015

Rovani died in Milan in 1874. His body was embalmed by

Paolo Gorini Paolo Gorini (18 January 1813 – 2 February 1881) was an Italian mathematician, professor, scientist, and politician renowned as a pioneer of cremation in Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom. Biography Born in Pavia, Gorini obtained a bach ...

and was buried in the

Cimitero Monumentale di Milano The Cimitero Monumentale ("Monumental Cemetery") is one of the two largest cemeteries in Milan, Italy, the other one being the Cimitero Maggiore. It is noted for the abundance of artistic tombs and monuments. Designed by the architect Carlo Mac ...

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* * 1818 births 1874 deaths Writers from Milan Italian newspaper editors Italian male journalists Italian male writers Scapigliatura Movement {{Italy-writer-stub