The Rossetti siblings in the correspondence of their father

Abstract

For the past twenty years a team of researchers in Naples and Oxford has been working to assemble and publish the Carteggio of Gabriele Rossetti, the Abruzzi poet exiled from Naples in 1821 because of his efforts to obtain a written constitution for the kingdom of Naples. As a necessary preliminary to this paper, brief mention needs to be made of a few biographical details, and the identity of certain destinatees of his letters. It should also be added that the purpose of what follows is uncontroversially informative; it simply aims to uncover certain items of minor domestic interest buried among unpublished autograph manuscripts datable post-1840, as well as among the four substantial volumes of already published correspondence from the preceding sixteen years of Rossetti's life in London.