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Lamore impossibile, durato dodici anni e conclusosi con la morte, tra Elena Campireali, dillustre casata, e Giulio Branciforti, brigante e figlio di brigante, sullo sfondo della selvaggia campagna romana, nella prima meta del Cinquecento. Pubblicato a Parigi nel 1839, La Badessa di Castro di Stendhal - capolavoro del romanzo breve - e considerato dalla critica la prova generale della Certosa di Parma.E forse tempo di rivedere la storia dei Castelli Romani secondo un nuovo filone - diverso da quello consueto dellaraldica guerriera dei casati o del folklore e delle lodi per i vini locali - nel sinistro ricordo delle lame dei coltelli estratti a tradimento che Stendhal ci racconta. Lo scrittore trova antropologicamente connaturato allindole italiana questo alternarsi di bellezza e crudelta, di arte universale e bassi intrighi di potere, di tiranni senza scrupoli o briganti amati dal popolo e Michelangelo, Giorgione, Leonardo e Raffaello. Uno sguardo allItalia del 500 che forse puo dar lumi sul modo di essere degli Italiani odierni.(Versione integrale)Per fruire al meglio di questo Audio-eBook da leggere e ascoltare in sincronia leggi la pagina daiuto a questo link:https://help.streetlib.com/hc/it/articles/211787685-Come-leggere-gli-audio-ebook

Una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal.La cartuja de Parma narra la historia de Fabricio del Dongo durante los últimos años del dominio napoleónico en Europa. Su tía Gina, la fascinante duquesa de Sanseverino, y el amante de esta, el primer ministro del ducado, urden un plan para promocionar la carrera del adorado sobrino en la corte de Parma. Gina es objeto de las proposiciones del detestable principe Ranuccio, al que se ha jurado rechazar con todas sus fuerzas. Fabricio es arrestado por homicidio y encerrado en la torre Farnese. A partir de ahi, las aventuras de Fabricio estaran siempre rodeadas por la amenaza de la muerte y el acecho de un amor inesperado

Novela total, pues así puede llamarse a la novela que reúne en sus páginas novela romántica, de aventuras, histórica y de capa y espada, La Cartuja de Parma entra sin duda en la categoría de las grandes obras de ayer, de hoy y de siempre. Las aventuras, amores y peripecias que el autor teje alrededor de las parejas formadas por el romantico y aventurero Fabricio del Dongo y Clelia Conti, por un lado, y por el habil y maquiavelico conde Mosca y la encantadora duquesa Sanseverina, por otro, dan espacio al lector para sumirse en una corriente de accion y de amores que dejara sin duda huella duradera en su memoria.

El texto que contiene este volumen forma parte de la obra de Stendhal Roma, Nápoles y Florencia, publicada originalmente en 1817 y nos muestra en pocas páginas el Stendhal viajero, que vivió en Italia durante siete años. Se nos muestra aqui su manera de ver es pais que tanto amo.

Rossini's popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France where he was regarded as 'an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition' and thus Stendhal, always an obstinate individualist, was the first of his contemporaries to recognise the genius of this important Italian composer. Stendhal's introduction to this book sets the musical climate in perspective with a history of the interregnum between the death of Cimarosa and the coming of Rossini.Details of Rossini's early life are followed by penetrating discussions in the operas, libretti, personalities of the period, and on Rossini's own character - indeed a whole chapter is devoted to his wild sense of humour. No book of its period better captures the atmosphere of opera-going during the birth-period of Romantic music. Besides being a fascinating and penetrating account of this popular Italian composer's most creative years and of contemporary musical events and opinions, this work is one of the finest items in the Stendhalian literary canon. Richard Coe's eloquent translation (revised for the second edition) and careful annotations do full justice to the incandescent strength of this great French writer's prose style.

In "The Abbess of Castro", Stendhal tells the story set in Lazio (Italy) of two doomed young loversone the daughter of the wealthiest man in the district, the other a brigand. Its a genuinely moving tale of impossible lovewith plenty of sword fights thrown inthats unique in Stendhals oeuvre, not least in its portrait of an intelligent woman who, ill-starred in love, turns to worldly power. Theres also some sparkling analysis of the conditions that produced the great art of the Renaissance.But "The Abbess of Castro" first published in the same year as Stendhals novel "The Charterhouse of Parma"is also characterised by themes that pervade his longer novels: political and familial machinations, a profoundly unsentimental view of war, ambitious individuals undone by passion.

"Armance" is a romance novel set during the Bourbon Restoration by French writer Stendhal, published anonymously in 1827. It was Stendhals first novel, though he had published essays and critical works on literature, art, and travel since 1815"Armance" tells the story of Octave de Malivert, a taciturn but brilliant young man barely out of the Ecole Polytechnique, who is attracted to Armance Zohiloff, who shares his feelings. The novel describes how a series of misunderstandings have kept the lovers Armance and Octave divided. Moreover, a series of clues suggest that Octave is impotent as a result of a severe accident. Octave is experiencing a deep inner turmoil; he himself illustrates the pain of the centurys romantics. When the pair do eventually marry, the slanders of a rival convince Octave that Armance had married only out of selfishness. Octave leaves to fight in Greece, and...

"Armance", à sa publication en 1827, paraît sans nom dauteur. Dans l’avant-propos, Stendhal samuse à brouiller encore davantage les pistes sur lidentité de lécrivain de cet opus. Il se présente non p

Sous la Restauration et le règne de Charles X, Octave est un bon parti : a vingt ans, le jeune aristocrate sort de l'Ecole polytechnique. S'il a un bel esprit, de belles manières et une belle stature, il n'en est pas moins tourmenté et profondément mélancolique. En lui grandit une passion exaltée pour sa cousine Armance, avec laquelle il partage une haute idée de l'amour. Mais ce qu'il ne partagera jamais, c'est son "fatal secret", impossible aveu et cause de son malheur... et de celui d'Armance.