#Manzoni

[marginaliamagpie]

some incunabula and editio princeps I saw in the flesh (and got absurdly excited over) last week:

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, allegedly by Francesco Colonna (Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1499)

Il principe by Niccolò Machiavelli (Antonio Blado, Rome, 1532)

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Le Terze rime by Dante Alighieri (Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1502)

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo by Galileo Galilei (Giovan Batista Landini, Florence, 1832)

I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni (Guglielmini e Redaelli, Milan, 1840)

Canti by Giacomo Leopardi (Guglielmo Piatti, Florence, 1831)

Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Felice Paggi, Florence, 1883)

[pietroleopoldo]

[libriaco]

Bibliofobia

La forma più nota e forse diffusa di bibliofobia è quella che molti professori provocano nei loro allievi mediante la frequente incapacità di comunicare la bellezza di certe opere, semplicemente insistendo sul rilievo storico e letterario delle stesse. L’esempio classico della nostra Italia pedagogica sono I promessi sposi, grande romanzo che gli studenti, alla fine dei corsi liceali, di norma detestano perché educati a detestarlo. La patologia si supera per caso: in età matura, qualcuno si trova un giorno tra le mani quel romanzo, ne apre una pagina e resta avvinto. Bastano alcuni capitoli per ottenere una guarigione certa e solida. Purtroppo, sono pochi coloro che casualmente si salvano: i più continuano a disprezzare I promessi sposi per la vita intera.

A. Castronuovo, Dizionario del bibliomane, Palermo, Sellerio, 2021

Immagine: Don Abbondio, Renzo e Lucia dalla copertina del "Corriere dei Piccoli", 8 Gen. 1967

Vedi anche la mia nota QUI.

[perennial-anxiety]

Gli occhi non davan lacrime,

ma portavan segno d'averne sparse tante.

-Alessandro Manzoni.

[ladyofmelk]

have you ever wanted to read about a character that's a mix between alyosha, katya and grushenka from the brothers karamazov? no? idc let me introduce you to Gertrude/the Nun of Monza from italian cult classic (unfortunately) The Betrothed !!

Her story only takes two chapters of the novel but it's so fascinating as a standalone.

To put it short, Gertrude's a young noblewoman tormented by love and passion that she can't freely express, and her family uses her guilt against her to make her abide to their wishes (punishments), ultimately resulting in her being forced to enter a monastery and having an affair in the dramatic pursuit of freedom and power. From her wiki page:

[she's] a tragic figure, a bitter, frustrated, sexually deprived and ambiguous woman.

You don't need to know much about the background info, just keep in mind that

It's a historical novel set in 17th century northern Italy under spanish occupation (to mirror the austrian occupation of the same areas occurring at the time the book was written - two centuries later)

Gertrude has to look after a peasant girl named Lucia (and her mother Agnese) as she's hiding from a local nobleman (don Rodrigo) who wants to kidnap/deflower her, and for this reason she's had to part ways with her fiancé Renzo

She's actually inspired by a real person, sister Virginia Maria (born Marianna de Leyva), a noblewoman who was forced to become a nun and had an illicit affair with a man + gave birth to his children in secret.

The man (count Osio) killed three people to hide the affair and was sentenced to death for starvation.

There was also trial against Virginia (ordered by archbishop Federico Borromeo, a historical character that actually appears in the book and saves everyone's ass) and she was sent to be basically buried alive in a monastery in Milan; she survived but decided to remain in the convent till the day she died.

Chapters in english:

(No idea why they translated their names, just know half of them are either spanish or italian)

Life of Marianna de Leyva:

(i suggest going to the italian page and using google translate for more info though)

[popolodipekino]

il mare (una notte) d'inverno

mi imbatto in calvino (se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) nella frase

manifesti subito inzuppati di pioggia e illeggibili per la carta spugnosa e l'inchiostro scadente

e mi sovvien l'eterno e le morte stagioni eccetera, e soprattutto adelchi

dagli atri muscosi dai fori cadenti

e ruggeri

manifesti già sbiaditi di pubblicità

[canterai]

Quel bonheur pour moi de lui pouvoir ouvrir mon cœur et d'être sûre de trouver toujours en elle un écho à mes sentiments !

[syndeticart]

How to hang art. 7-2024.

[polyanthea]

I’ve 71 sheets to wash, the waters of the Arno, and two laundrymen.

-Alessandro Manzoni, in a letter to his friend, describing his plans to go on a writing retreat to revise the proof sheets of I promessi sposi with the help of his friends, a playwright and a philologist

[dk-thrive]

Who are your favorite novelists and why?

I love Stendhal above all because only in him are individual moral tension, historical tension, life force a single thing, a linear novelistic tension. I love Pushkin because he is clarity, irony, and seriousness. I love Hemingway because he is matter-of-fact, understated, will to happiness, sadness. I love Stevenson because he seems to fly. I love Chekhov because he doesn’t go farther than where he’s going. I love Conrad because he navigates the abyss and doesn’t sink into it. I love Tolstoy because at times I seem to be about to understand how he does it and then I don’t. I love Manzoni because until a little while ago I hated him. I love Chesterton because he wanted to be the Catholic Voltaire and I wanted to be the Communist Chesterton. I love Flaubert because after him it’s unthinkable to do what he did. I love the Poe of “The Gold Bug.” I love the Twain of Huckleberry Finn. I love the Kipling of The Jungle Books. I love Nievo because I’ve reread him many times with as much pleasure as the first time. I love Jane Austen because I never read her but I’m glad she exists. I love Gogol because he distorts with clarity, meanness, and moderation. I love Dostoyevsky because he distorts with consistency, fury, and lack of moderation. I love Balzac because he’s a visionary. I love Kafka because he’s a realist. I love Maupassant because he’s superficial. I love Mansfield because she’s intelligent. I love Fitzgerald because he’s unsatisfied. I love Radiguet because we’ll never be young again. I love Svevo because we have to grow old. I love . . .

—  Italo Calvino, from “Answers to Nine Questions on the Novel” in “The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays. Translated by Ann Goldstein. (Mariner Books Classics, January 17, 2023) 

[aengelai]

Uovo scultura, Piero Manzoni (1960)

[libriaco]

Son disgrazie!

[Perpetua:] – Mala cosa nascer povero, il mio caro Renzo.

A. Manzoni, I promessi sposi [1840], Cap II. Scaricabile da LiberLiber.

[pier-carlo-universe]

Il "Minchione" di Ivan Pozzoni: Ironia letteraria e riflessione culturale. Un viaggio ironico nella letteratura italiana. Recensione di Alessandria today

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