@inbook{10.3138/9781442684959.8,
 ISBN = {9780802091864},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442684959.8},
 abstract = {In the late eighteenth century, quotations of the heart began to rise on the stock exchange of our literary civilization. Since then, the heart metaphor has given poets and narrators no quarter; it has become the dominant symbol of affection, sentiment, and passion; it is both moral guide and source of artistic inspiration, amounting to a private identity card. It is the secret corner devoted to inner changes and jealous memories, where desires reside together with the human will. And yet the heart has still other meanings besides these.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the reasons of the},
 author = {Dawn Winterhalter and Gemma Dawkes},
 bookauthor = {GINO TELLINI},
 booktitle = {The Invention of Modern Italian Literature: Strategies of Creative Imagination},
 pages = {75--84},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Quotations of the Heart},
 year = {2007}
}