Abstract
Sterne’s influence on the first half of the nineteenth century Italian literature has followed different and often hidden (nascosti) principles, starting from Foscolo’s utmost translation of “Sentimental journey” up to Strafforello’s and Castiglia’s thoughts about humour. The Medico-Poeta, ironic and satirical writer, made his debut in Milan literary circles in 1837, and his prose was characteristic of a pronounced inclination for Sterne’s model of experimentalism.It is in his prefaces, or better in his “system of prefaces” that Giovanni Rajberti showed to have fully assimilated the sternian teaching by setting up a continuous dialogue with his readers. His formal structure reveals itself to them in all its artificiality, in the same way the author’s mask appears clearly artificial and phantasmagorical.
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