Life
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2024
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5634-1 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5634-1 (ISBN)
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Life presents a first-hand, dramatic account of the privileged life and development of a literary mind in late eighteenth-century Europe from an Italian perspective.
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.
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.
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.
Translator’s Note
Introduction
1. Childhood
2. Adolescence
3. Youth
4. Manhood
Letter of the Abbot of Caluso, 1804
Appendices
Index
Biographical Note
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library |
| Mitarbeit |
Anmerkungen: Gianpiero W. Doebler |
| Übersetzer | Gianpiero W. Doebler |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5634-9 / 1487556349 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5634-1 / 9781487556341 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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