Approcci controversi all’unificazione politica italiana prima e dopo il 1861 Un confronto esemplare fra Ippolito Nievo e Federico De Roberto
Controversial Approaches to Italian Political Unification before and after 1861. A Comparison Case: Ippolito Nievo and Federico De Roberto

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to compare the best known historical novel by Ippolito Nievo, published in Britain as The Castle of Fratta, to Federico De Roberto’s I Viceré. Nievo drowned to death in 1861, the same year De Roberto was born. The year, which also officially marked the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy, represents a turning point in the history of Italian literature. As the comparison of the two novels shows, the idealistic and optimistic attitude preceding 1861 was to disappear a few years later, as it became apparent that the upper classes lacked the competence and morality needed to lead the new Kingdom.

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