{"product_id":"confessions-of-an-italian-isbn-9780141391663","title":"Confessions of an Italian","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man’s long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti has decided to write down the confessions of his long life. Throughout, Carlo has lived for his two great passions: his dream of a unified, free Italy and his undying love for the magnificent but inconstant Pisana. Peopled by a host of unforgettable characters, this epic historical novel intertwines the remarkable story of one man’s life and the history of Italy’s unification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\"Unfailingly lively . . . a masterpiece . . Few books, in fact, dramatize as engagingly as \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e the collective flaws that still dog Italian public life today\"\u003cbr\u003e--Tim Parks, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sprawling story of love, valor, and the Risorgimento . . . The first complete version of Nievo’s book in English was published just this year, in a wonderful translation by Frederika Randall.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Elizabeth Kolbert, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e(Best Books of 2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of all the furore that came out of the Risorgimento, only Manzoni and Nievo really matter today\"\u003cbr\u003e--Umberto Eco    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The one 19th century Italian novel which has [for an Italian reader] that charm and fascination so abundant in foreign literatures\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Italo Calvino    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the greatest Italian novel of the nineteenth century\"\u003cbr\u003e--Roberto Carnero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A wonderful blend of wit, political perspicuity and exuberant comic invention, \u003ci\u003eThe Confessions of an Italian\u003c\/i\u003e has been called the great novel of the Risorgimento...Frederika Randall’s admirable new translation now makes it available in all its sprawling, teasing, snook-cocking glory...This is a humane piece of fiction, funny and wise, but it is also a candid, astute account of what it feels like to combine lofty patriotic illusions about a People, with a realistic view of how ignoble and mistaken people generally are.’\u003cbr\u003e--Lucy Hughes-Hallett, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eIPPOLITO NIEVO \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1831 in Padua. He was, Italo Calvino once said, the sole Italian novelist of the nineteenth century in the “daredevil, swashbuckler, rambler” mold so dear to other European literatures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFREDERIKA RANDALL \u003c\/b\u003eis a cultural journalist and translator based in Rome.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887043637477,"sku":"NP9780141391663","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141391663_82a78c1f-f0b1-43e3-b291-f9556f4130ab.jpg?v=1742916725","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/confessions-of-an-italian-isbn-9780141391663","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}