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Dear David,
Italo Svevo has a nice little article, published in 1887, called "Il sig. Nella
e Napoleone', which you might find interesting. It's in his "Teatro e saggi",
Milan, Mondadori, 2004.
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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