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Idéologie et militantisme dans "Le confessioni d'un Italiano" d'Ippolito Nievo

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1991

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Lyon 3

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Literature

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Abstract EN:

Le confessioni d'un italiano (1858) aim at mobilizing the reader for the independence wars (1859-61). N. Projects himself into carlino altoviti an "octogenarian" bord in venice : like him his mother was a noblewoman and his father a committed man : from 1775 he is a "witness and an actor" in the cycle of the 3 generations of the "democratico" development. After i had studied the 3 notebooks of the manuscript, their hegelian tripartite outline forced itself upon me : 1 the subversion of values announces the solitary end of patrician venice. Individualism socio-politicizes ambitious passions. Only the little "orphan of fratta" is gifted with the emotional foreknowledge of the revolution. 2e the french revolutionary "rupture" (10 central chapters) starts with arcadian and virtuous rousseauism : carlino is a moral and militant tutor. Consequently to jacobine infiltration and to bonaparte's victories, campoformio puts an end to venice. I note that history is manipulated : among ather things carlino glorifies as italian, only the parthenopean legion of carafa, who is beheadedsymmetrically in the text with louis xvi. Italian franternity triumphs over french liberty and equality which are contested by mazzini, himself not named. The family is born again from the utopian community ; anonymous "associations" finance interdependent revolutions ; venice sacrifies itself for ome ; this novel is a corrective and educational bildungsroman. 3e progress (for example the restored father) has its myths : sacrified love, deified humanity, rome "queen of the world" for the "third" time. N. Follows hegel : he repeats homer's epic and 16th epic to celebrate the "democratic" war based on the greek revolutionary model rather than the

Abstract FR:

Les confessions d'un italien (1858) mobilisent en vue des guerres d'independances (1859-61). Nievo (1831-61) utilise un "octogenaire", ne venitien de mere noble et de pere "engage" aussi, carlino altoviti : il est "temoin et acteur" du cycle des trois generations, depuis 1775, du devenir "democratico". L'examen des 3 cahiers du manuscrit m'impose leur plan tripartite hegelien. 1) la subversion des valeurs annonce la fin solitaire de la patricienne venise. L'individualisme socio-politise d'ambitieuses passions. Seul le petit "orphelin de fratta" recoit de la nature l'affective prescience de la revolution. 2) la "scission" revolutionnaire francaise (10 ch. Centraux) commence par l'arcadien et vertueux rousseauisme : carlino est precepteur moral et militant. Suite a l'infiltration jacobine et aux victoires de bonaparte, campoformio met fin a venise. Je vois l'histoire manipulee : entre autres carlino exalte comme italienne la seule legion "parthenopeenne" d'un carafa decapite a la fin en symetrie avec louis xvi. La fraternite italienne corrige la liberte et l'egalite francaises que conteste mazzini non nomme ; la famille renait de la communaute utopique ; l'association anonyme finance de solidaires revolutions ; venise se sacrifie a rome ; voici un correctif et educatif roman de formation. 3) le progres (p. Es. Le pere restaure) a ses mythes : amour sacrifie, humanite deifiee, rome, une 3e fois "reine du monde". Nievo suit hegel : il renouvelle l'epopee d'homere et du 16e s. , pour celebrer la guerre "democratica" sur le modele revolutionnaire grec plutot que francais. Venise ressuscite solidaire en 48 ; a rome, garibaldi honore un venitien qui, "orphelin de l'humanite", au bresil, se sent italien aupres d'une epouse romaine ; on rapatrie leurs enfants dans une famille italienne unie. . . Publie altere posthume, ce roman oriente est riche et jeune.