The Little World of the Past
by Antonio Fogazzaro
The Trilogy of Rome (book 1), Tetralogia di Casa Maironi (1)
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Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italian novelist.Tags
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Splendido il diverbio tra Luisa e Franco che impersonano le contrastanti opinioni dell'autore che ha lottato molto con se stesso a proposito di religione. Una storia triste ma con spazio per la speranza e l'invito a rialzarsi anche dopo una disgrazia. Ti sembra di aver realmente visto i personaggi e sentito il clima, così cupo, come la storia. Non mi è piaciuto il dialetto...Proprio non lo sopporto... La marchesa è proprio una figura diabolica ma nel comportamento di Franco vedo quello di molte persone reali e fin troppo leali... Mi ritrovo molto nei pensieri di Luisa.
I suppose I should be reviewing this in Italian, but . . . you know how it goes. Anyway, I have admired this book ever since I was assigned to read it in university decades ago. It wears well on the heart and the mind, so much so that I havebeen presumptuous enough to incorporate aspects of it in my own writing -- with love, of-course, not opportunism.
ullo sfondo dell’Italia risorgimentale, tra la prima e la seconda guerra di indipendenza, si svolge il dissidio amoroso e ideale tra Franco Maironi, un giovane di idee liberali, e Luisa Rigey, una ragazza di modeste condizioni economiche.
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- Canonical title
- The Little World of the Past
- Original title
- Piccolo mondo antico
- Alternate titles
- Little Ancient World; The Patriot; A House Divided
- Original publication date
- 1895
- People/Characters*
- Franco Maironi; Luisa Rigey; Piero; Ombretta
- Important places*
- Oria, Italia; Italia
- Important events
- Risorgimento
- Related movies
- Piccolo mondo antico (1941 | IMDb)
- First words
- On the lake a cold breva was blowing, striving to drive away the grey clouds which clung heavily about the dark mountain-tops. (1906 - Hodder and Stoughton English translation)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In Luisa's womb there lay a vital germ which was preparing to fight the battles of a new era, preparing to taste other joys, other griefs than those which the man of the old world was leaving thus peacefully, blessed unconsciously, at the last moment, by that strange priest of Isola Bella, who had, perhaps, never uttered the holy words to one more worthy. (1906 - Hodder and Stoughton English translation).
- Original language
- Italian
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 853.8 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian fiction Later 19th century 1859–1900
- LCC
- PQ4688 .F6 .P6 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors, 1701-1900
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