Life - Couverture rigide

Alfieri, Vittorio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487556349 ISBN 13 : 9781487556341

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487556349
• ISBN 13: 9781487556341
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 362
• Éditeur: Doebler Gianpiero W.
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