Il libro dei morti di Alfredo Panzini (Italian Edition)

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Alfredo Panzini 31 December — 10 April was an Italian novelist and lexicographer. Panzini worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a writer. Panzini is noted for the humorous and often genial tone of his writings. Among his many works, there are Libro dei Morti , Santippe , Alfredo Panzini 31 December — 10 April was an Italian novelist and lexicographer. Among his many works, there are Libro dei Morti , Santippe , and Il diavolo nella mia libreria Log In Sign Up. This is a time where strong assumptions such as the positivistic reason and the glorification of sentiment and tradition, which nineteenth-century civilization had been founded upon, are passing through a crisis.

By the end of the 19th century some individualistic ideologies are spreading and war is beginning to be believed a necessity and a merit.

In this unquiet spiritual climate Alfredo Panzini develops an inner world divided into incompatibile parts; his own literature will rotate on a representative conflict between an ideal world and a real one. Inside this historical and literary universe the autobiographical matrix will be an element of fundamental importance. Panzini writes a large number of novels, most of which take decidedly the lead of the book market after the first decade of the twentieth century. It seems as if time has stopped somehow and by leafing through a book at first, then by reading it, one may observe how much the author was hostile to modernity.

Anyway Alfredo Panzini, running the rope of his memories over the pulley, leads us to explore through his autobiographical novel a portion of the literary culture at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Nowadays the importance of Alfredo Panzini is being re-evaluated: There is no doubt that the analysis of the autobiographical part should start from irrefutabile informations, i.

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Alfredo Panzini makes good friends with some of the most distinguished men of letters of his time, especially Marino Moretti and Renato Serra whom Panzini will share a passion for literature with as well as the dramatic events connected to the outbreak of the First World War. Also great and prestigious publishing houses are showing high interest in the literary productions by the author from Romagna: His literary success comes owing to his early autobiographical novels. The author gives the reader a clear witness of a real — life journey by means of his own memories of childhood, of his youth in Venice and at the University of Bologna as a student, the years of his maturity working as a teacher in Naples, Milan and Rome and finally the period of his life marked by his travels and the rural life in the farms of Romagna.

A key point in the human and literary education of Alfredo Panzini as a university student is definitely his meeting with professor Carducci in Bologna. Panzini, especially through the autobiographical style, casts the reader into a multiconversational dimension of the language. These are the most considerable features stressed by the critics.

Panzini often relies on the Classics by making a large use of quotations and memories whenever it turns out to be necessary. All in all this writer, who had been a bestselling author for almost four decades, would be read, esteemed and liked also on account of the language he used to write with. The image of Alfredo Panzini riding his ever — present bycicle is a recurring portrayal borrowed from the author. This recalling reveals and introduces one of the most important features in the Panzinian autobiographical novel, i.

The picture of Panzini riding his own bycicle dominates the cover of one of the most important autobiographical novels of his, La lanterna di Diogene.

The author has chosen the bycicle for his journey; it is the journey of a cyclist immersed in the true beauties of nature in the search of uncontaminated places. The journey becomes a path to wisdom and a therapy for the soul; the vehicle represents a device to be close to nature and to a healthy rural environment.

The encounters with people, the affection for the old tradition and the relish for the habits of the past merge to build up a sense of membership in a decidedly conservative environment. Panzini reacts to modernity with detachment but, asserting his extraneousness, he also feels the whole of technological progress as a threat. Dawn is his favourite time, the time of the explosive power of nature awakening under the most radiant sun. Panzini often frames the auroral landscape from a distance, also giving it a philosophical value.

At daybreak the author is already at his desk and his style seems as if it is always pervaded with the atmosphere of the faint light of dawn.

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At the early lights of the morning the author can leave the crowd to find a better relish for nature in the features which, just at daybreak, get more distinctive, when the mind is being filled with physical and tactile sensations. Also at dawn Alfredo Panzini meets the most plain and sincere environment; through his journey he happens to know people of the lower classes, fishermen and peasants: