Confessions of an Italian
Ippolito Nievo's epic historical novel of one man's long life and the unification of Italy, translated by Frederika Randall for Penguin Classics in 2014.
Confessions of an Italian is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento. Ippolito Nievo wrote it in 1858 and it appeared posthumously in 1867. Carlo Altoviti, aged eighty-three, writes down the confessions of his long life, devoted to a free, unified Italy and to the inconstant Pisana. Dacia Maraini admires Nievo’s portrait of the girl Pisana. Frederika Randall’s translation has an introduction by Lucy Riall.
Recommended by 1 Person
Dacia Maraini
He wrote a portrait of a girl called La Pisana, a famous figure in Italian literature, because it is such a beautiful portrait of this little girl, and the poor people, the peasants
Interview · June 2010
As an Amazon Associate, bookstoread.org earns from qualifying purchases. Links to Amazon on this page may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Spotted an error on this page? Tell us and we will fix it.