摘要：The Young Ercole Luigi Morselli (1882-1921), soon to become a recognized author and successful playwright, made a transoceanic and adventurous journey which lasted a year, from summer of 1903 to the autumn of 1904. His decision to travel stemmed mainly from his free spirit’s rebellion against the rules and traditional approaches to Art that he thought stifled his artistic ambitions. His desire to go someplace else came from the need to distance himself from both his Motherland – a land of Culture and Literature where he hoped one day to be recognized as a writer – and his own mother, Anna Celli, so that he could emancipate himself and grow as a man and artist, although he maintained a connection with both by way of letter writing. Morselli is one of the very few artists of his own time to make a similar journey and from this correspondence it is possible to trace a sort of artistic and personal itinerary in which we can identify the first clear signs of his artistic ambition and future projects.
关键词：Morselli. Nineteenth-Century Italian theater and literature. Myth. Journey.;Ercole Luigi Morselli. Teatro y literatura en el siglo XIX. Mito. Viaje;Ercole Luigi Morselli. Teatro e literatura no século XIX. Mito. Viagem.
