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Ginevra o l'orfana della Nunziata
Ginevra o L'Orfana della Nunziata
280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1839
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Antonio Ranieri
32 books1 followerAntonio Ranieri was an italian patriot and writer.
For many years he lived in poverty traveling in numerous foreign countries to escape borbonic police due to his revolutionaries ideas. When he returned to Italy he lived in Firenze in a turbulent dandy lifestyle; here he became friend with poet Giacomo Leopardi. Returned in Napoli, he took care of Leopardi in his family's house until his death in 1837.
He payed for a monument to his memory and published his works and a biography.
In 1839, he published the novel Ginevra o l'orfanella della Nunziata after visiting an orphanage in Naples and got shocked by what he saw. In this novel he revelead the terrible conditions and the abuses on children in the orphanage and this caused police to arrest him for 45 days and the banning of the novel (which anyway had and extremely huge popularity in clandestine circulation).
Two years later he published la Storia d'Italia dal V al IX secolo ovvero da Teodosio a Carlo Magno, an historic account in which Ranieri showed all the negative things made by the Pope and his church. For this work he got more enemies and troubles with the law.
In 1842 he published a philosophical novel called Il frate Rocco (Rocco the monk) which also caused controversy.
After the 1848 revolution, in which he didn't have any particular role, he was elected in the Neapolitan Parlament. In 1861 he was elected deputy in Parliament of Regno d'Italia till 1881 taking care for the political situation of Southern Italy and then published Quattro discorsi circa la questione meridionale (1862). He also became also teacher in history and philosophy at Napoli University.
In 1880 he published the memoir Sette anni di sodalizio con Giacomo Leopardi (Seven years of friendship with Giacomo Leopardi), a scandalous book which got criticized for violating Leopardi's privacy and personal life. In the book he also claimed to have provided Leopardi at his own full economic support. However Giuseppe Piergili in 1892 published "Nuovi documenti intorno alla vita e agli scritti di Giacomo Leopardi" which contained personal letters and promissory notes signed by Leopardi till his death which denied what said in the Sodalizio: actually was Leopardi himself to provide economic support to Antonio Ranieri and his brothers who lived in poverty with his little income. This brought to many historical studies who questioned about the real relationship between the two writers.
For many years he lived in poverty traveling in numerous foreign countries to escape borbonic police due to his revolutionaries ideas. When he returned to Italy he lived in Firenze in a turbulent dandy lifestyle; here he became friend with poet Giacomo Leopardi. Returned in Napoli, he took care of Leopardi in his family's house until his death in 1837.
He payed for a monument to his memory and published his works and a biography.
In 1839, he published the novel Ginevra o l'orfanella della Nunziata after visiting an orphanage in Naples and got shocked by what he saw. In this novel he revelead the terrible conditions and the abuses on children in the orphanage and this caused police to arrest him for 45 days and the banning of the novel (which anyway had and extremely huge popularity in clandestine circulation).
Two years later he published la Storia d'Italia dal V al IX secolo ovvero da Teodosio a Carlo Magno, an historic account in which Ranieri showed all the negative things made by the Pope and his church. For this work he got more enemies and troubles with the law.
In 1842 he published a philosophical novel called Il frate Rocco (Rocco the monk) which also caused controversy.
After the 1848 revolution, in which he didn't have any particular role, he was elected in the Neapolitan Parlament. In 1861 he was elected deputy in Parliament of Regno d'Italia till 1881 taking care for the political situation of Southern Italy and then published Quattro discorsi circa la questione meridionale (1862). He also became also teacher in history and philosophy at Napoli University.
In 1880 he published the memoir Sette anni di sodalizio con Giacomo Leopardi (Seven years of friendship with Giacomo Leopardi), a scandalous book which got criticized for violating Leopardi's privacy and personal life. In the book he also claimed to have provided Leopardi at his own full economic support. However Giuseppe Piergili in 1892 published "Nuovi documenti intorno alla vita e agli scritti di Giacomo Leopardi" which contained personal letters and promissory notes signed by Leopardi till his death which denied what said in the Sodalizio: actually was Leopardi himself to provide economic support to Antonio Ranieri and his brothers who lived in poverty with his little income. This brought to many historical studies who questioned about the real relationship between the two writers.
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