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Life

Life

Alfieri, Vittorio
Doebler, Gianpiero W.
Doebler, Gianpiero W.

Hardcover

Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1487556349
ISBN13: 9781487556341
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 11 2024
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The theatrical tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803), Italy's greatest dramatist of the late 1700s, feature themes and elegant verse that perfectly reflect his neoclassical age. Life presents Alfieri's autobiography, detailing a journey that was anything but measured and orderly, giving the modern reader an entertaining and insightful view of privileged life and travel in pre-Napoleonic Europe and the gradual (and late) development of a cultured, literary mind. Alfieri leads us through childhood humiliations in Torino, introductions to popes and sovereigns, love affairs scandalous and noble, Baltic ice storms, treks across Spain, a late-night duel in London, a narrow escape from revolutionary Paris, venereal inconveniences, and the difficulty of breaking into the literary establishment. A stubborn and proud man, Alfieri includes in his memoirs enough self-awareness and self-deprecation to make his character engaging and often sympathetic.

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