Scrivere su un’isola. Esuli a Malta nella prima metà dell’Ottocento

Abstract

During the long Italian Risorgimento, the archipelago of Malta became the favorite asylum of several exiles from the Italian peninsula. The geographical proximity and the vocation to maritime trade of the island, the substantial tolerance of the British government towards immigration, and the use of Italian as the language of the culture were decisive reasons why the conspirators chose it as a refuge. In particular, in the early 1800s and the aftermath of the liberal revolutions of the 1820s poets and writers reached the island which became a place of literary and political experimentation.