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Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «I would have gone down on my knee before him if we were allowed to worship men.» With these words Giuseppe Verdi described his first impulse upon meeting Alessandro Manzoni in Milan in June 1868. Many readers are familiar with Manzoni's great novel, The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi), the work that elicited Verdi's extravagant reverence for its author. Before turning to write a novel, however, Manzoni composed two plays, The Count of Carmagnola (1820) and Adelchi (1822). Both plays broke free of the constraints of the neo-classical stage, and embraced the spirit of the new Romantic drama. Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays makes these tragedies available in a fresh English translation.

The Betrothed

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812978811
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Betrothed written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together. Published in 1827 but set two centuries earlier, against the tumultuous backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy during the Thirty Years’ War, The Betrothed is the story of two peasant lovers who want nothing more than to marry. Their region of northern Italy is under Spanish occupation, and when the vicious Spaniard Don Rodrigo blocks their union in an attempt to take Lucia for himself, the couple must struggle to persevere against his plots—which include false charges against Renzo and the kidnapping of Lucia by a robber baron called the Unnamed—while beset by the hazards of war, bread riots, and a terrifying outbreak of bubonic plague. First and foremost a love story, the novel also weaves issues of faith, justice, power, and truth into a sweeping epic in the tradition of Ivanhoe, Les Misérables, and War and Peace. Groundbreakingly populist in its day and hugely influential to succeeding generations, Alessandro Manzoni’s masterwork has long been considered one of Italy’s national treasures. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun

Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801878817
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now, translator Federica Brunori Deigan presents lyrical English-language versions of these two tragedies which, taken together, dramatize the first two epochs in Manzoni's "history of Italy." (The Betrothed completes the triptych, illustrating the period of Spanish domination.) Long unavailable in English, The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis are distinguished by their dramatic power and thematic gravity. Manzoni considers the interactions of Christian morals and Machiavellian politics through deft psychological portraiture, ultimately revealing the course of history as a fabric woven by individuals free will according to a logical pattern of actions and reactions, within the vaster providential plan, that human eyes can only dimly perceive."--BOOK JACKET.

On the Historical Novel

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282261
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book On the Historical Novel written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alessandro Manzoni was a giant of nineteenth-century European literature whose I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1928) is ranked with War and Peace as marking the summit of the historical novel. Manzoni wrote “Del romanzo storico” (“On the Historical Novel”) during the twenty years he spent revising I promessi sposi. This first English translation of On the Historical Novel reflects the insights of a great craftsman and the misgivings of a profound thinker. It brings up to the nineteenth century the long war between poetry and history, tracing the idea of the historical novel from its origins in classical antiquity. It declares the historical novel—and presumably I promessi sposi itself—dead as a genre. Or perhaps it justifies I promessi sposi as the climax of a genre and the end of a stage of human consciousness. Its importance lies both in its prospective and in its retrospective contributions to literary debate.

The Harvard Classics: Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi (The betrothed)

Author : Charles William Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Harvard Classics: Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi (The betrothed) written by Charles William Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 49--Epic and saga.

The Column of Infamy

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Column of Infamy written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Betrothed

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780460877589
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Betrothed written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Lombardy during the wars, famine and plague of 1628-30, THE BETROTHED tells the story of two young lovers. Following them through exile, plague and inner suffering, it shows great richness of characterization and a profound interest in the workings of history. Renzo and Lucia's story is also a compelling political analysis of their times; published in 1827, THE BETROTHED is the first modern Italian novel.

The Niceties

Author : Eleanor Burgess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786829649
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Niceties written by Eleanor Burgess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professor meet to discuss a paper the college junior is writing about the American Revolution. They're both liberal. They're both women. They're both brilliant. But very quickly, discussions of grammar and Google turn to race and reputation, and before they know it, they're in dangerous territory neither of them had foreseen – and facing stunning implications that can't be undone.

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434379
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.

The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004388958
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Beauty in Italian Literature and Language written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the pivotal role played by the concept of beauty in Italian literature and language in the construction of the Italian national identity.

Gabriele d'Annunzio

Author : Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038534970X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Gabriele d'Annunzio written by Lucy Hughes-Hallett and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s extraordinary biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, poet, bon vivant, harbinger of Italian fascism. Gabriele d’Annunzio was Italy’s premier poet at a time when poetry mattered enough to trigger riots. A brilliant self-publicist in the first age of mass media, he used his fame to sell his work, seduce women, and promote his extreme nationalism. In 1915 d’Annunzio’s incendiary oratory helped drive Italy to enter the First World War, in which he achieved heroic status as an aviator. In 1919 he led a troop of mutineers into the Croatian port of Fiume and there a delinquent city-state. Futurists, anarchists, communists, and proto-fascists descended on the city. So did literati and thrill seekers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. After fifteen months an Italian gunship brought the regime to an end, but the adventure had its sequel: three years later, the fascists marched on Rome, belting out anthems they’d learned in Fiume, as Mussolini consciously modeled himself after the great poet. At once an aesthete and a militarist, d’Annunzio wrote with equal enthusiasm about Fortuny gowns and torpedoes, and enjoyed making love on beds strewn with rose petals as much as risking death as an aviator. Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s stunning biography vividly re-creates his flamboyant life and dramatic times, tracing the early twentieth century’s trajectory from Romantic idealism to world war and fascist aggression.

Alessandro Manzoni

Author : Augustus Pallotta
Publisher : Fabrizio Serra Editore
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alessandro Manzoni written by Augustus Pallotta and published by Fabrizio Serra Editore. This book was released on 2007 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narrating from the Archive

Author : Marco Codebò
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838642055
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Narrating from the Archive written by Marco Codebò and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating from the Archive describes the historical development of the archival novel, a fictional genre in which the narrative stores records, bureaucratic writing informs language, and the archive frames the readers' apprehension of the text. Archival novels have been written in two distinct paradigms--legitimation and challenge. While in the former paradigm the archive guarantees the novel's verisimilitude, in the latter the archive is questioned as a hierarchized and politically biased system for establishing truth. In this book, Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi, Honore de Balzac's Ursule Mirouet and Le Colonel Chabert, are examples of novels written within the paradigm of legitimation; while Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard et Pecuchet permits the transition between the two paradigms, George Perece's La vie mode d'emploi and Don DeLillo's Libra represent cases of archival fiction written within the paradigm of challenge.

Byron and Italy

Author : Alan Rawes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526126087
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Byron and Italy written by Alan Rawes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018 Byron in Italy – Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet’s ‘last attachment’ – forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byron’s time in Italy was crucial to his development as a writer, to Italy’s sense of itself as a nation, to Europe’s perceptions of national identity and to the evolution of Romanticism across Europe. In this volume, Byron scholars from Britain, Europe and beyond re-assess the topic of ‘Byron and Italy’ in all its richness and complexity. They consider Byron’s relationship to Italian literature, people, geography, art, religion and politics, and discuss his navigations between British and Italian identities.

Adelchi

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Adelchi written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher : Digireads.Com
ISBN 13 : 9781420930979
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) written by Alessandro Manzoni and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Betrothed / Walter Scott.

Italy and Its Invaders

Author : Girolamo Arnaldi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674018709
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Italy and Its Invaders written by Girolamo Arnaldi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and âeoenative,âe liberally illustrated with interpretations of the foreigners drawn from a range of sources. A despairing Saint Jerome wrote, of the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410, âeoeMy sobs stop me from dictating these words. Behold, the city that conquered the world has been conquered in its turn.âe Other Christian authors, however, concluded that the sinning Romans had drawn the wrath of God upon them. Arnaldi traces the rise of Christianity, which in the transition from Roman to barbarian rule would provide a social bond that endured through centuries of foreign domination. Incursions cemented the separation between north and south: the Frankish conquerors held sway north of Rome, while the Normans settled in the south. In the ninth century, Sicily entered the orbit of the Muslim world when Arab and Berber forces invaded. During the Renaissance, flourishing cities were ravaged by foreign armiesâe"first the French, who during the siege of Naples introduced an epidemic of syphilis, then the Spanish, whose control preserved the countryâe(tm)s religious unity during the Counter-Reformation but also ensured that Italy would lag behind during the Enlightenment. Accessible and entertaining, this outside-in history of Italy is a telling reminder of the many interwoven strands that make up the fabric of modern Europe.