The Castle of Fratta

by Ippolito Nievo

The novel is both historical (its background is events in Italy in the
last decades of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th
century) and psychological, being based upon the memories of "Carlino
Altoviti" , the main character and first-person narrator. It is widely
considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento.

Genres: Italian Literature, Fiction

606 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1867

About the author

Ippolito Nievo was born in 1831, in Padua and died in a shipwreck in the Tyrrhenian Sea (1861).
After graduating in Law at the University of Padova, he refused to join his father's profession as a lawyer, because this implied an act of submission to the Austrian Government, to which the Italian region Veneto belonged.
He was politically inspired by Giuseppe Mazzini's thought and wanted to engage for the independence of Veneto and a united Italy. Therefore, he took part in the Second war of Independence following Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1860 he enlisted with Garibaldi's Mille who, after having defeated the Borbone army in Sicily and Southern Italy, gave those regions to the King of Sardinia Vittorio Emanuele II. On 18 February 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was founded, fulfilling the hopes of Ippolito Nievo. Shortly after, in March, he died in a sea wreck.

Reviews

[mags · Rating 3 out of 5]

przyjemne, ze szczęśliwym zakończeniem (carlino nie musi już obracać ręcznie rusztu, bo przysłużył się wszystkim na tyle, że nagle dało się uruchomić ten automatyczny ruszt, który stał i się kurzył)

[julia sapalska · Rating 1 out of 5]

O K R O P N E. bardzo źle mi się czytało 😭😭😭😭😭 wątki poplątane, bohaterów od …. i trochę, nudna, za dużo histori 1,5/5 za zakończenie bo w końcu się zaczęło coś dziać