Utente:Antonio Ciciani/Sandbox

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Carlo Alianello was born in Rome in 1901. He studied in Florence and in Rome, graduating in Literature. He is currently teaching Italian Literature at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art School. Among his main works: "The Theater of Maeter-linck", "The Bishop", "The King's Soldiers", "Mary and her Brothers".

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The echo of the press-Giovanni D’Alde

The Standard Bearer

The Bishop is one of those novels that arouses controversy and makes even the most inexperienced reader discuss. This is the first literally successful attempt to give a new interpretation of italian Risorgimento. This novel is intended to be only an ideal vindication of the heroism of the Neapolitans who remained loyal to the Bourbons and sacrificed themselves for their fidelity to the flag that is increasingly worthy of admiration and memory. The standard bearer has become the symbol of all those who rightly fight for a lost cause and consequently find their motive of interest and topicality in it, true or claimed, polemical correspondence with the situation that arose in the last and painful war supported by the Italians.

"What makes your novel relevant?"

• "The book written in '41, was released because of the war only in '43. The main reason for its popularity was the vision of my Naples that was shattered without any apparent cause, without any decisive impact, by internal dissolution. It perfectly mirrored reflected the situation in Italy at that time. The anti-barbon grumbling I represented was actually very similar to the anti-fascist grumbling. It became a must read among the neo-fascists because it idealized fidelity to the flag, resistance to the extreme, making poetic the situation of remaining faithful in the midst of a mass of non-faithful. "

"The defense and exaltation of loyalty to the Fatherland, even in defeat, was one of the main reasons that prompted me to write "the Alfiere", so in it I also wanted to exalt the loyalty to Italy, of those who were dying for it. "

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A famous critic, Ruggero Moscati, had in his hands "The Legacy of the Prioress" by Carlo Alianello published by Feltrinelli. He realizes that his first commitment as a critic must consist in the rather unusual defense of the book and the author from the laudatory presentation made by the publisher. If the critic Moscati had not read and loved Alianello's first novel "L’Alfiere", which another progressive publisher Einaudi published in 43 ', the merits attributed to this new novel of his would not have led him to read it. No historical-democratic work more rigorously points to the organic rot of the old kingdom. There is in Alianello the impartiality of a magistrate that have been made easy for him by his Catholicism, in fact one feels in him in the face of worldly regimes the same detachment that made Louis Veuillot say, although a legitimist, not to be the kings of the earth for a Christian. nothing other than “des percepteurs d'Impôts”.