Graziella a Story of Italian Love

The author’s recollections of his first visit to Italy at the age of eighteen and of the romance of his youth. The autobiographical book was published in 1886 by a French poet, politician, historian, writer of travel books and popular literature, Alphonse de Lamartine. The once famous romantic novel tells a bittersweet and heartbreaking story of love of a fisher girl Graziella and a sophisticated Frenchman who, after a brief romance and courtship, left her and returned to his native land, to all