Confessions of an Italian

the Confessions of Italian of Ippolito Nievo ( the confessioni of a italiano in Italian) is a Historical novel writes in 1857, published in 1867 after the tragic death of the author in 1859.

At the 30 years age, Ippolito Nievo is placed in the skin of an octogenarian to recall his childhood and its life, since the end of the 18th century, until in 1855, with the threshold of the unit of the Italy.

Through the loves of Carlo Altoviti and Pisana, the epopee describes the rise of the novel ideas resulting from the French revolution, the invasions Napoleonean, the end of the République of Venice, the treason of Napoleon, the domination of the Austria on the North of Italy and the combat of Garibaldi in which Nievo took part.
All the battles of Napoleon in Italy, of its Italian partisans, the birth of the Republic parthénopéenne, others Republic sister in Italy, her rout, the seat of Embarrassment, are described there with a lyricism and an astonishing clearness.

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