This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... XII. ALFIERI. IT is difficult to decide with what name to close these chapters. There is the sickly and melancholy Leopardi, who had more reason than most men for always looking at the dark side of things. He filled two or three volumes with his gloomy philosophy, but saved his reputation by some forty poems ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... XII. ALFIERI. IT is difficult to decide with what name to close these chapters. There is the sickly and melancholy Leopardi, who had more reason than most men for always looking at the dark side of things. He filled two or three volumes with his gloomy philosophy, but saved his reputation by some forty poems into whose beautifully polished lines he breathed his sufferings and passions. Manzoni was a man of a far different type. Noble, manly, cheerful. His life was notably pure, and in this respect he presents a marked contrast to most Italian writers. He wrote several dramas, but his novels are his most important contributions to the literature of Italy. Both these deserve places higher perhaps than Alfieri, but the life of neither affords so much that 92 is interesting and singular as the career of Vittorio Alfieri. Of most authors it is written "he was born of poor but respectable parents." Singular in this as in almost everything else, Alfieri came into the home of wealthy parents on January 17, 1749. His responsibility for having rich parents is evidently so limited as to make this fact hardly an indication of his character, and the first few years of his life are not a surprise to those who know the influence of a rich and over-fond mother upon a precocious son. Alfieri was at ten a decidedly spoiled child, and represented capitally the effect of "sparing the rod." A year at school in Turin seems not to have improved him much, and we find him sent away on a visit to a relative, who, having no children of his own, felt himself doubly capable of bringing up the son of others. There is no evidence that the object of this visit was accomplished, although some one must have inspired the lad to effort, since at the age of thirteen he entered a...
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Very Good. Presumed first edition, pictorial tan cloth gilt, very good, light soil. Studies of mainly classical authors, going up to Dante, Machiavelli, Petrarch and Alfieri. 98 pp, minor foxing.
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