Giuseppe Rovani was an Italian novelist.

Rovani was born in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

. He was known for criticism of historical novels of the Romantic

Romanticism

Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

 style, which were popular in Italy at the time and whose stereotypes and old fashioned plots he pointed out. He wrote Lamberto Malatesta (1843), Valenzia Candiano (1843) and Manfredo Pallavicino (1845-1846).

He took part in the Italian Risorgimento and was a forerunner of the Milanese Scapigliatura

Scapigliatura

Scapigliatura is the name of the artistic movement which developed in Italy after the period known as Risorgimento,...

.

His masterwork is the novel Cento Anni (1859-1864) which, together with Ippolito Nievo

Ippolito Nievo

Ippolito Nievo was an Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His Confessioni d'un italiano is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento.-Life:...

's Confessioni di un italiano, had an important impact on the evolution of Italian novel.

Rovani died in Milan in 1874.

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