Italian Entry-Romantic Age

In Italian we are studying Romanticism. Romanticism is a cultural movement during the end 1700s and the mid-1800s. It started in Germany with the movement "Sturm und Drang" , that means "Impeto e Assalto". It was introduced in Europe by the magazine 'Ateneum' .It arrived in Italy with the poet Giovanni Berchet, he promoted the modern writing and criticized the old classic culture. The people who followed Romanticism where said to be Romantics, in opposition to them where the Illuminates (Illuminism-cultural movement in the 1700. In 1818 the Italian Romantics put up a magazine called " The Conciliator". It showed the difference between " The old poetry, or of the dead" and " The new poetry, or of the living". The Romantics Era wast characterized by: Pessimism, Victimism, Heroism, Rebellion, wanting of Liberty, patriotism and naturalism. The Romantics also loved history, especially the Middle Ages. They were very patriotic mostly in those times, because Italy was ruled by a foreign country: Austria.