Fogazzaro Antonio
Antonio Fogazzaro (25 March 1842 – 7 March 1911) was an Italian novelist. Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family. In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin. In Milan he followed the scapigliatura movement. In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this path very soon to write books full time. In his works one finds a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. Arguably his masterpiece was Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English translations as The Patriot or as Little World of the Past). This well written novel is set in his beloved Valsolda on Lake Lugano, Italy, in the 1850s. It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inner psychological conflicts of the characters. Fogazzaro was a deeply religious man but supported reform in the Catholic Church and toured Italy proposing to reconcile Darwin's theory of evolution with Christianity. He found new interpretations in positivist and evolutionist theories, but because of this in 1905 the Roman Catholic Church banned the novels Il santo and Leila. He died six years later in his birthplace, Vicenza.
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the sinner
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III ECLIPSES OEVERAL town councillors of the clerical O majority were to meet privately at the house of Doctor Z£upa, one of the members, at four o'clock. At five minutes to three a very gentle ring of the bell made the honest councillor start. Two individuals, a priest and a layman, entered with a somewhat mysterious air. The layman pulled out his watch, and said, addressing Zaipa: " Will that do?" Smiling, rubbing his hands, and making a series of jerky bows, Zaupa answered: " Most punctual! Most punctual!" and ushered his visitors into the sacred precincts of the parlour. The priest, a short, spare man, with a cunning face and eyes full of mockery, was one of the secret leaders of the party, one of the three or four who kept in the background and moved the victorious black pieces on the chess-board by means of hidden wires. The other, a fine-looking man of about forty, of gentlemanly bearing, and with an intelligent and benevolent countenance, was the Cavaliere Soldini, a Lombard, and the director of the clerical newspaper. "Well?" said Zaupa. His visitors smiled, and looked at each other in tacit interrogation. " You speak," said the priest. Then, as his colleague demurred, he explained to Zaupa that they were not precisely of the same opinion, and that he should prefer to speak last. Hereupon Soldini yielded, and began his discourse. "Well, this is how the matter stands. You must know that there is, unfortunately, much truth in the stories that are being circulated concerning our mayor and a certain lady. There is passion on both sides, and a passion that is not silent." "No, indeed!" the priest interposed. "Anything but silent! Kisses and embraces in the garden, cor am populo!" " We may say, coram nemori et lunae, if the story be true. Exit, a...
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daniele cortis a novel translated from the italian of antonio fogazzaro
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