Ettore Fieramosca: ossia, La disfida di Barletta by Massimo d' Azeglio

"Ettore Fieramosca: ossia, La disfida di Barletta" by Massimo d'Azeglio is a historical novel published in 1833. Set during a legendary clash between French and Italian forces at Barletta, the work emerged from d'Azeglio's patriotic paintings of the same subject. Written with the belief that art and culture could forge Italian national consciousness better than revolutionary movements, the novel celebrates episodes of national pride. Its immense success caught Austrian censors off-guard, making it a powerful voice for Italian independence that spread too widely to suppress. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Azeglio, Massimo d', 1798-1866
Title Ettore Fieramosca: ossia, La disfida di Barletta
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Fieramosca_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Fieramosca_(romanzo)
Credits Produced by Giovanni Fini and the Online Distributed
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Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 43.6 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Italian
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Barletta (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1503 -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 44797
Release Date
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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