La scrittura di Cettina atoli Ajossa tra passioni tardoromantiche e presentimenti decadenti

The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the scholars the writings of Cettina Natoli Ajossa (1867-1913), Sicilian noblewoman, who published several novels in which the Romantic paradigm is questioned and the crisis of the Nineteenth-Century world is highlighted. Particularly relevant the autobiographical memoir of Messina earthquake: it focuses upon the bitter conflict between classes, giving us the meaning of the end of an era.The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the scholars the writings of Cettina Natoli Ajossa (1867-1913), Sicilian noblewoman, who published several novels in which the Romantic paradigm is questioned and the crisis of the Nineteenth-Century world is highlighted. Particularly relevant the autobiographical memoir of Messina earthquake: it focuses upon the bitter conflict between classes, giving us the meaning of the end of an era