Confessions of an Italian
Nievo, Ippolito, 1831-18612014
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An overlooked classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy. At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. He remembers everything: his unhappy childhood in the kitchens of the Castle of Fratta; romantic entanglements during the siege of Genoa; revolutionary fighting in Naples; and so much more. Throughout, Carlo lives only for his twin passions in life: his dream of a unified, free Italy and his undying love for the magnificent but inconstant Pisana. Peopled by a host of unforgettable characters - including drunken smugglers, saintly nuns, scheming priests, Napoleon and Lord Byron - this is an epic historical novel that tells the remarkable and inseparable stories of one man's life and the history of Italy's unification. Ippolito Nievo was born in 1831 in Padua. Confessions of an Italian, written in 1858 and published posthumously in 1867, is his best known work. A patriot and a republican, he took part with Garibaldi and his Thousand in the momentous 1860 landing in Sicily to free the south from Bourbon rule. Nievo died before he reached the age of thirty, when his ship, en route from Palermo to Naples, went down in the Tyrrhenian Sea in early 1861.
Main title:
Confessions of an Italian / Ippolito Nievo ; translated by Frederika Randall ; with an introduction by Lucy Riall.
Author:
Nievo, Ippolito, 1831-1861, authorRandall, Frederika, translatorRiall, Lucy, 1962-, author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.©2014
Collation:
xlii, 884 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9780141391663 (paperback)0141391669 (paperback)
Dewey class:
853.8
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
376201
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