Life
Published on 11. November 2024
Book
Hardback
362 pages
978-1-4875-5634-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
This new translation, the first in seventy years, includes footnotes describing places, people, and events largely unfamiliar to twenty-first-century readers plus Alfieri's own appendices - letters, poems, early drafts of scenes - translated into English for the first time.
This new translation, the first in seventy years, includes footnotes describing places, people, and events largely unfamiliar to twenty-first-century readers plus Alfieri's own appendices - letters, poems, early drafts of scenes - translated into English for the first time.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-5634-1 (9781487556341)
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Persons
Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet.
Gianpiero W. Doebler received his PhD in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and works as a translator, specializing in texts using older forms of Italian and in poetry.
Gianpiero W. Doebler received his PhD in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and works as a translator, specializing in texts using older forms of Italian and in poetry.
Gianpiero W. Doebler received his PhD in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and works as a translator, specializing in texts using older forms of Italian and in poetry.
Gianpiero W. Doebler received his PhD in Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles, and works as a translator, specializing in texts using older forms of Italian and in poetry.
Content
Translator's Note
Introduction
1. Childhood
2. Adolescence
3. Youth
4. Manhood
Letter of the Abbot of Caluso, 1804
Appendices
Index
Biographical Note
Introduction
1. Childhood
2. Adolescence
3. Youth
4. Manhood
Letter of the Abbot of Caluso, 1804
Appendices
Index
Biographical Note