La Abadesa De Castro: Una Crónica Italiana
Paperback Published on: 01/09/2007; Language: Spanish
Price: £16.73
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Synopsis
The first of Stendhal's novellas that comprise his *Italian Chronicles*, this story is considered a literary gem. Stendhal begins with a prologue of sorts about the sixteenth century and the state of mind of the people of Florence, but he soon begins to weave a tale about an impossible love between a well-intentioned bandit named Julio Branciforte and a noble young lady, the beautiful Elena Campireali. The tale slowly acquires psychological depth and transforms from the picturesque into the dramatic: the characters make mistakes and are selfish and extremely cruel, all of which is justified in the name of that disproportionate feeling that was known as love in Renaissance Italy.
*La primera de las novelas cortas que conforman las* Crónicas italianas *de Stendhal, ésta historia es considerada un joya literaria. Stendhal arranca con una suerte de prólogo sobre el siglo XVI y la mentalidad de los florentinos, pero pronto nos comienza a narrar un amor imposible entre un bandido bueno llamado Julio Branciforte y una joven noble, la bella Elena Campireali. Poco a poco la historia adquiere profundidad psicológica y pasa de lo pintoresco a lo dramático: los personajes cometen errores y son egoìstas y extremadamente crueles, todo lo cual se justifica en nombre de ese sentimiento desproporcionado que es el amor en la Italia renacentista.*
Publisher information
- Publisher: Editorial Impedimenta
- ISBN: 9788493592707
- Number of pages: 176
- Dimensions: 198 x 132 x 15 mm
- Weight: 227g
- Languages: Spanish
