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Gli italiani sono tutti ladri? Non tutti, ma buona parte / Buonaparte.
Č vero che questa barzelletta č stata il motivo del cambio di cognome
di Napolene Buonaparte > Bonaparte?
Saluti
>
> Then there is the old old joke: Sono bugiardi tutti i francesi? Non
> tutti, ma
> buona parte."
>
> Best wishes,
>
> B.
>
> Quoting David Ellison <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently writing about Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy
>> (1844).
>> I am particularly interested in a passage where he describes
>> attending a
>> marionette performance in Genova called "St Helena or the Death of
>> Napoleon." Dickens is surprised by the audience’s anger towards
>> the puppet
>>
>> version of Napoleon’s gaoler, Sir Hudson Lowe: “[they] quite
>> execrated
>> him. It would be hard to say why; for Italians have little cause to
>> sympathise with Napoleon, Heaven knows.”(Pictures, 52-53). In
>> brief, I am
>> looking for sources that will lend support to the idea that
>> Napoleon was,
>> or at least could be, recognised as a sympathetic if not heroic
>> figure for
>> the Genovese (and Italians generally?). The histories I've
>> consulted -
>> Beales and Broers among several others do much to suggest the
>> long term
>> significance of the epoca francese for the risorgimento but offer
>> little
>> evidence of popular responses to Bonaparte in the 1840s. It seems
>> likely
>> to me that his rehabilitation as liberal hero following the
>> pageants of
>> the retour des cendres may have shaped attitudes in Italy as well,
>> but
>> I've yet to find any direct support for this. I'm sure this speaks
>> more to
>> my ineffectual efforts on unfamiliar disciplinary ground than any
>> paucity
>> of resources. So, if any of you have any thoughts on how to direct
>> a very
>> lost Dickens scholar, I'd be very grateful. And, should any of you
>> decide
>> to write about Dickens at some point in the future I pledge every
>> possible
>> support.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> David Ellison
>>
>>
>> Dr David Ellison
>> School of Arts, Media and Culture
>> Macrossan Building N16, Nathan Campus
>> Griffith University
>> Brisbane, Queensland 4111
>>
>> ph: 61 7 3735 7906
>> Fax: 61 7 3735 5187
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Emeritus Professor Brian Moloney,
> Department of Modern Languages,
> University of Hull,
> Hull, HU6 7RX,
> U.K.
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