Word: ippolita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century...
...Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajino. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto; but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
...Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
...Best Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard, and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
...with the authoritative relish of a man who has grown up with his subjects without ever growing tired of them. He brilliantly evokes the Italian love of the land that borders on mania and some times crosses that border. The past itself is perhaps the most memorable character in Ippolita, and it is as haunting, grave and startling in its reality as Hamlet's father's ghost...