{"id":19340,"date":"2023-04-11T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/the-heart-is-a-hodgepodge-life-and-masterpiece-of-the-revolutionary-manzoni\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:02:08","slug":"the-heart-is-a-hodgepodge-life-and-masterpiece-of-the-revolutionary-manzoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/the-heart-is-a-hodgepodge-life-and-masterpiece-of-the-revolutionary-manzoni\/","title":{"rendered":"The heart is a hodgepodge. Life and masterpiece of the revolutionary Manzoni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author:<br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/2023\/09\/25\/eleonora-mazzoni\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"231\">\n  <strong>Eleonora Mazzoni<\/strong>\n  <br\/>\n<\/a>Publishing house:<br\/><strong>Einaudi<br\/><\/strong>Date of publication:<strong><br\/>11-04-2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Manzoni, always called by the article preceding his surname, whom we imagine as students is a perpetually middle-aged man with a grave and somewhat absent gaze, similar to the one portrayed by Francesco Hayez in one of his most famous paintings. A man who can hardly inspire sympathy, any more than his masterpiece, The Betrothed, which as listless adolescents we sip like a bitter medicine to swallow because &#8220;it&#8217;s good for you.&#8221; But, reading carefully the one thousand eight hundred letters he left us and the testimonies of family and friends, Manzoni turns out to be very different from that. A wry and affable conversationalist, in the forefront of everything, animated by a burning political fire, as a young man he was rebellious and libertine, remaining restless throughout his existence. Indeed, once he became a writer, Alexander, let&#8217;s call him by his name now, poured his own restlessness into his work as few others have been able to do.  <em>The Betrothed<\/em> reflects, in fact, all the passions that stirred an adventurous life full of emotional turmoil: maternal abandonment, fatherlessness, spiritual travail, and the civil struggle for a united Italy free from the foreign oppressor. A great popular novel, shot through with an indomitable spirit, capable of penetrating human beings and their hearts. And to still shake our souls today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manzoni, always called by the article preceding his surname, whom we imagine as students is a perpetually middle-aged man with a grave and somewhat absent gaze, similar to the one portrayed by Francesco Hayez in one of his most famous paintings.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[154,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eleonora-mazzoni-en","category-libro-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19341,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19340\/revisions\/19341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmenprestia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}