Keywords

• The paper illustrates the private correspondence between Fogazzaro and Yole Biaggini Moschini (Carteggio 1887-1909
• edited by V. Bertoldo and P. Luxardo
• â€
• œ
• Quaderni dellâ€
• ™
• Accademia Olimpicaâ€
• 
• Vicenza 2011)
• the twelfth volume of the series dedicated to Fogazzaroâ€
• ™
• s extensive correspondence. It includes rare replies from Biaggini Moschini and letters addressed to her husband
• these must have determined a certain degree of caution in the amorous effusiveness
• however
• which nevertheless increases in intensity in the final period. Balduino reflects on the interest in letter-writing
• the dominant themes in Fogazzaroâ€
• ™
• s letters
• love and religion
• and
• recognizing the osmotic relationship between Yole Biaggini and Jeanne Dessalle
• the main character in Piccolo mondo moderno
• according to similarities also recognizable in other novels
• he shows the often realistic origins of Fogazzaroâ€
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• s writing
• disregarded instead by the traditional historiographical positioning of the writer