Ibsen : Con un cenno su Scipio Slataper di Arturo Farinelli 1916 [Leather Bound]

by Scipio Slataper

This edition features a leather binding on the spine and corners, adorned with gold leaf printing on the rounded spine. Additional customizations are available upon request, such as full leather binding, gold screen printing on the cover, colored leather options, or custom book colors. Reprinted in 2022 from the original edition published many years ago [1916], this book is presented in black and white with a sewn binding to ensure durability. It is printed on high-quality, acid-free, natural shade paper, resized to meet current standards, and professionally processed to maintain the integrity of the original content. Given the age of the original texts, each page has been meticulously processed to enhance readability. However, some pages may still have minor issues such as blurring, missing text, or black spots. If the original was part of a multi-volume set, please note that this reprint is a single volume. We hope you understand these limitations and appreciate our efforts to preserve this valuable piece of literary history. We believe this book will be of great interest to readers keen on exploring our rich cultural heritage and are pleased to bring it back to the shelves. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Italian, 374. Full leather binding is available for an additional $25 beyond the price of the standard leather-bound edition. {Folio edition also available.} Complete Ibsen : Con un cenno su Scipio Slataper di Arturo Farinelli 1916 [Leather Bound] by Slataper, Scipio,

374 pages, Leather Bound

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Scipio Slataper (14 July 1888 – 3? December 1915) was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical autobiographical prose-poetry novel/essay Il mio Carso (My Karst). He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, as the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste.

Slataper was born to a relatively wealthy middle-class family the city of Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today in Italy). After completing his high school studies in the native city, he moved to Florence in Italy, where he studied Italian philology. In Florence, he collaborated to the literary journal La Voce, edited by Giuseppe Prezzolini and Giovanni Papini. During his stay in Florence, he started writing essays and articles on the literary and cultural situation in Trieste.

After the suicide of his lover in 1910, Slataper retired in solitude to the village of Ocizla in the Karst plateau above Trieste, where he wrote his most famous work, the lyrical novel/essay My Karst (Italian: Il mio Carso), considered one of the masterpieces of Italian fin-de-siecle prose. The essay, in which Nietzschean influences can be seen, is an assertion of vitalism and primitive life force. The essay also contains political and philosophical reflections. Among other, Slataper was polemical against the superficial business mentality of the Italian merchants of Trieste and criticized their anti-Slavic prejudices. On the other hand, the work contains highly controversial depictions and reflection on the "suppressed brutal and barbaric nature" of the Slovene peasants from the area.

My Karst was published in Florence in 1912, and remained the only book Slataper published during his lifetime. In 1921, the book was translated to French by Benjamin Crémieux, which helped its spread of Slataper's popularity Europe in the 1920s.

After graduation in 1912, Slataper moved to Hamburg in Germany, where he taught Italian language at the local university. When Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary on 24 May 1915, he moved to Italy and volunteered to join the Italian Army. He was sent to the front along the Isonzo river. In December 1915, he was was probably killed in the Fourth Battle of the Isonzo on the hills surrounding the town of Gorizia as he vanished during the battle and his body was never found.