Download or read book Dalla prigionia nello Spielberg al ritorno alla vita Una biografia romanzata di Silvio Pellico e degli altri patrioti del Risorgimento detenuti nel carcere dello Spielberg written by Cristina Contilli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piccolo importante commovente libro, inatteso anche, certamente buono per tutti quanti, come il sottoscritto, guardano alla storia non come una sorta di passerella monumentale, dove spiccano eroi e condottieri e grandi letterati, ma come una trama di vita vissuta, di vita vera, animata da uomini e donne che sono anche corpi, desideri, sentimenti, passioni, aneliti, paure... E allora ecco qui, Silvio Pellico e gli altri patrioti, la Milano e la Torino dell'Ottocento che noi abbiamo inscatolato e messo via sotto la dizione "Risorgimento", eccoli nelle loro esistenze reali, quotidiane, non meno importanti delle loro tracce che si sono sedimentate sui libri di storia... Cristina Contilli qui riesce in un difficile equilibrio, che peraltro credo che sia l'unico che possa restituirci il bisogno del nostro passato come cosa viva. Ci offre nelle stesse pagine la competenza di chi ha studiato a fondo la nostra storia per restituircelo con la forza della narrazione da romanzo.(DALLA RECENSIONE DI PAOLO CIAMPI)
Download or read book Dalla prigionia nello Spielberg al ritorno alla vita written by Cristina Contilli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basato sulle lettere di S. Pellico, l'autrice ci regala un ritratto inedito di questo personaggio che è conosciuto, quasi sempre, solo per le poche notizie scolastiche legate alla sua figura. Un'attenta ricostruzione dei fatti, un linguaggio perfettamente consono all'epoca in cui tutto si svolge e lo stile narrativo proprio della Contilli, lineare e semplice, danno vita ad una biografia romanzata che, probabilmente, di romanzato ha davvero poco, vista la grande cura impiegata nella ricerca e nella verifica delle fonti storiche da parte dell'autrice stessa. Il libro parla anche di altri personaggi detenuti nelle medesime prigioni, come A. Andriane, F. Confalonieri e P. Maroncelli, allargando la narrazione a coloro che ne condivisero la sorte, alle donne che soffrirono con loro e ne attesero la liberazione, ma è soprattutto su Pellico che il romanzo è incentrato. (DALLA RECENSIONE DI MARIA GUIDI) EDIZIONE CON LE ILLUSTRAZIONI IN BIANCO E NERO
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Il duello Costanza Arconati tra Giovanni Berchet e Pietro Borsieri Quinta edizione revisionata ed ampliata written by Cristina Contilli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Molto carina questa biografia romanzata della Contilli che, in poche pagine, è riuscita nella non facile impresa di rendere vivi e reali nomi che hanno fatto la storia e che, prima di questo libro, erano appunto solo nomi su carta. L'amore con tutti i suoi intrecci, la forte passionalità descritta, l'occhiata veloce sulla serena vita familiare del Pellico e tutte le altre vicende esaminate, hanno l'indubbia qualità di mostrare i protagonisti sotto una luce completamente nuova che, basandosi su ricostruzioni storiche che partono da lettere e testimonianze, mostrano non solo un lato sconosciuto del carattere dei personaggi ma anche degli eventi, esaminando quindi le cose da un punto di vista completamente nuovo. Una biografia romanzata si, ma realistica e probabilmente molto vicina all'effettivo svolgimento dei fatti." (DALLA RECENSIONE DI MARIA GUIDI NELLA RIVISTA ON LINE LIBRIERECENSIONI.COM) EDIZIONE CON LE ILLUSTRAZIONI IN BIANCO E NERO.
Download or read book Lettere al fratello Luigi e agli scrittori piemontesi 1832 1853 written by Cristina Contilli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dopo la liberazione dallo Spielberg Silvio Pellico torna a vivere a Torino prima in casa dei genitori poi a palazzo Barolo (una scelta dovuta alla morte tra il 1837 e il 1838 di entrambi i genitori dello scrittore, una situazione che cambierà di poco, quando Pellico, ormai avanti negli anni, ritroverà la contessa Cristina Archinto Trivulzio, che aveva amato, prima dell'arresto), come segretario della marchesa Giulia Falletti di Barolo che per quasi vent'anni aiuterà nelle su opere di beneficenza e in particolare nella conduzione di una sala d'asilo, destinata ad accogliere i bambini poveri dai 2 ai 6 anni che i genitori, impegnati per molte ore nel proprio lavoro, spesso finivano per trascurare. Queste lettere testimoniano, dunque, il rapporto di confronto e in alcuni casi (come per es. con Cesare Balbo e Giovanni Vico) di amicizia tra Pellico e gli altri scrittori attivi nel Piemonte dell'epoca.
Download or read book The Song of the Massacared Jewish People written by Itzhak Katzenelson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable poem written in Yiddsh by Yitzhak Katzenelson at the time of the Holocaust of the Jews in the second World War (1943), after which the poet and his son were murdered by the nazis. The poem is written in 15 sections, each with 15 quatrains totaling 900 lines. It describes the occupation of Warsaw by the German army and the murder of the Jews, either there or in the concentration camps where they were dispatched. The poem ends with the Jews taking up the gun that symbolizes the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The English translation appears with the original Yiddish text.
Download or read book Scrittori Italiana written by Plinio Carli (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorie D un Prigioniero Di Stato Nello Spielberg written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Double Bond written by Carole Angier and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi is known for "Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, " and the classic "The Periodic Table." Angier has spent nearly ten years writing this meticulously researched, vivid, and moving biography.
Download or read book Vengeance written by George Jonas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discloses the Israeli plan to assassinate the known terrorist leaders responsible for the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes and chronicles the story of the hit-squad's leader, a man morally destroyed by his mission.
Download or read book The Risorgimento Revisited written by S. Patriarca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.
Download or read book Garibaldi written by Lucy Riall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in Sicily and provoked the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the overthrow of papal power in central Italy, and the creation of the Italian nation state. It made him a global icon, representing strength, bravery, manliness, saintliness, and a spirit of adventure. Handsome, flamboyant, and sexually attractive, he was worshiped in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882. Lucy Riall shows that the emerging cult of Garibaldi was initially conceived by revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the status quo, that it was also the result of a collaborative effort involving writers, artists, actors, and publishers, and that it became genuinely and enduringly popular among a broad public. The book demonstrates that Garibaldi played an integral part in fashioning and promoting himself as a new kind of “charismatic” political hero. It analyzes the way the Garibaldi myth has been harnessed both to legitimize and to challenge national political structures. And it identifies elements of Garibaldi’s political style appropriated by political leaders around the world, including Mussolini and Che Guevara.
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Download or read book Magic Prague written by Angelo Maria Ripellino and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb, haunting, clotted mad masterpiece.'- John Banville, The Observer This unique cultural history attempts to go beyond the tourist clich of Prague as the 'golden city' to bring out all the mystery, ambiguity, gloom, lethargy and hidden fascination of the city on the Vltava. Ripellino slips into the style of melodrama and ghost stories, the anecdotes of the enchanted traveller and the outlandish bad taste of beer-teller tales to bring out the sorcery of the Bohemian capital in a mixture of fact and fiction.
Download or read book The Voice of Memory written by Primo Levi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated thirty-six of the most important of these interviews for The Voice of Memory.
Download or read book Magonia written by Maria Dahvana Headley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Maria Dahvana Headley is a firecracker: she’s whip smart with a heart, and she writes like a dream.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and Coraline Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name. Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia. Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie? Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars in this New York Times bestselling story about a girl caught between two worlds, two races, and two destinies. Don’t miss Aerie, the stunning, highly anticipated sequel!
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