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Joseph Collins. Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life
Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life
Table of Contents
PREFACE
IDLING IN ITALY
CHAPTER I. LITERARY ITALY
CHAPTER II. LITERARY ITALY (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER III. GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO—POET, PILOT, AND PIRATE
CHAPTER IV. THE FUTURIST SCHOOL OF ITALIAN WRITERS
CHAPTER V. GIOVANNI PAPINI AND THE FUTURISTIC LITERARY MOVEMENT IN ITALY
CHAPTER VI. TWO NOISY ITALIAN SCHOOLMASTERS
CHAPTER VII. IMPROVISIONAL ITALIAN LITERATURE OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY
CHAPTER VIII. FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER IX. THE LITERARY MAUSOLEUM OF SAMUEL BUTLER
CHAPTER X. SAINTS AND SINNERS
CHAPTER XI. WOMAN'S CAUSE IS MAN'S: THEY RISE OR SINK TOGETHER …
CHAPTER XII. POSTBELLUM VAGARIES
CHAPTER XIII. WORLD CONVALESCENCE
CHAPTER XIV. BANQUETS AND PERSONALITIES
CHAPTER XV. SENTIMENTALITY AND THE MALE
CHAPTER XVI. THE PLAY INSTINCT IN CHILDREN
CHAPTER XVII "IF A MAN WALKETH IN THE NIGHT, HE STUMBLETH BUT IF HE WALKETH IN THE DAY HE SEETH THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD"
CHAPTER XVIII. THE AMERICAN EAGLE CHANGES HIS PERCH
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Joseph Collins
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"I Malavoglia" and "Mastro-don Gesualdo" were to have been succeeded by a third volume which would complete the story of the characters unfolded in them, but it never appeared. When we recall that only eight thousand copies of the former have been sold in forty years, we readily understand the artist's discouragement. Posterity is likely to link Verga's name with Leopardi and Manzoni.
The great romance-writer of Italy during the days of her resurrection was Manzoni. During the first and second generations of Italy's unity the mantle of his greatness was worn gracefully and becomingly by Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911). Born at Vicenza, he had the bringing-up and education of a gentleman. His best-known books are "Daniele Cortis," "Piccolo Moderno Mondo" ("The Little Modern World"), "Piccolo Mondo Antico" ("The Little Antique World"), and "Il Santo" ("The Saint"). "Daniele Cortis" is generally believed to reveal Fogazzaro's moral, religious, and political convictions. It is a series of interesting pictures of intimate life in the upper circles and reveals the mental development of a man of high principles, the skeleton in whose closet is a mother who, having side-stepped the paths of morality in her youth, and who was lost to her son for several years, thrusts herself upon him the very day when he has his feet securely set on the ladder whose apex is a brilliant political career. His struggles between duty to his mother and obligations to his country, his desire not to offend convention or outrage morality, his love for his cousin Eleana, tame for him but consuming to her, unhappily married to a Sicilian roué brute and baron, are narrated in a way that seduces even the casual reader. Indeed it is wonderfully done, and attention is sustained to the end, virtue being finally rewarded.
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