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{{Short description|Italian writer}}
'''Gerolamo Rovetta''' (November 30, 1851 - May 8, 1910) was an Italian writer and playwright.▼
[[File:Portrait of Gerolamo Rovetta.jpg|thumb|right|156px|{{center|Gerolamo Rovetta}}]]
 
▲'''Gerolamo Rovetta''' (November 30, 1851 -– May 8, 1910) was an Italian writer and playwright.
Born in [[Brescia]], Rovetta was the author of novels and short stories as well of stage plays and dramas. His first novel was ''Mater dolorosa'' (1882), a novel set in the world of the nobles that achieved a considerable popular success.<ref name=grr>{{cite book|last=Peter Bondanella, Julia Conway Bondanella|title=Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001|isbn=0304704644}}</ref>▼
 
▲BornRovetta was born in [[Brescia]], [[Austrian Empire]]. Rovetta was the authorwriter of many novels and short stories as well of stage plays, andmostly dramas. His first novel was ''Mater dolorosa'' (1882), a novel set in the world of the nobles that achieved a considerableconsiderably popular success.<ref name=grr>{{cite book|lastauthor1=Peter Bondanella, |author2=Julia Conway Bondanella |title=Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature|publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001|isbn=0304704644}}</ref> The late nineteenth century English novelist [[George Gissing]] read Rovetta's ''La Baraonda'' in Italian in November 1894, the year of its publication. After initially saying that he liked it, he concluded eventually that it was "not an original book" as it recalled "too strongly French and Russian novels".<ref>Coustillas, Pierre, ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978, p.355.</ref>
He is also well known for the drama ''Romanticismo'', whose success was partly dued to its patriotic content;<ref name=grr/> it was later adaptated in [[Romanticismo (film)|a film with the same name]] directed by [[Clemente Fracassi]] and starred by [[Amedeo Nazzari]] and [[Clara Calamai]].<ref name="45-59">{{cite book|last=Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}}</ref>▼
 
▲He is also well known for the drama ''Romanticismo'', whose success was partly dueddue to its patriotic content;<ref name=grr/> it was later adaptatedadapted in [[Romanticismo (film)|a film with the same name]] directed by [[Clemente Fracassi]] and starred by [[Amedeo Nazzari]] and [[Clara Calamai]].<ref name="45-59">{{cite book|lastauthor1=Roberto Chiti, |author2=Roberto Poppi, |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}}</ref> In theatre ''Romanticismo'' and ''I disonesti'' found in [[Paola Pezzaglia]] an ideal interpreter.
 
Close to [[verismo]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Pierluigi Pellini|title=Naturalismo e verismo|publisher=La nuova Italia, 1998|isbn=8822130286}}</ref> his works represent the Lombard political and the bourgeoisie of the time, and show the disillusionment for the failure of the ideals of the [[Risorgimento]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Enrico Bevilacqua|title=Gerolamo Rovetta e la sua famiglia materna: appunti e ricordi|publisher=Le Monnier, 1925}}</ref>
 
In 1910 Rovetta committed suicide in 1910, leaving an unfinished novel.<ref name=grr/>
 
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author | id=3997| name=Gerolamo Rovetta}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Gerolamo Rovetta}}
 
{{Authority control|LCCN=nr/2001/25336}}
 
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| NAME = Rovetta, Gerolamo
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Italian writer
| DATE OF BIRTH = November 30, 1851
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| DATE OF DEATH = May 8, 1910
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