«Milano, 4 marzo 1854, il Principe Karl Kraft Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen informa che…». Una spia prussiana in missione

This work, focussed on an author who is little-known in German studies, falls within the field of research on travel literature and on the forms of writing related to it. Thematic and linguistic analysis of the works of prince Karl Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen is used to reconstruct the complexity of the literary fact as a whole and the deep mechanisms of societies and history. The identity/otherness dichotomy proposed by the Prussian spy on a mission in Italy reveals, between the lines, the creeping opposition of Prussia and Austria on the eve of Sadowa.