The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula - Il Bruzio and Mariuzza Sbrìffiti

The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula, a Calabrian intellectual committed to the plight of his Region, provides a microhistory of life in a Southern Italian province in the decade following Unification by giving voice to the working classes and women through representation of a diverse reality ignored by the Savoyards.

List of contents

I. Introduction
II. His Life
III. Padula's 'obscurity'
IV. Padula Demopsicologo
V. De Sanctis and Croce
VI. Padula's (Un)Popular Realism
VII. Il Bruzio
VIII. Lo Stato delle persone in Calabria
IX. Women Correspond with "Il Bruzio"
X. Mariuzza Bis
XI. Prelude and End of Il Bruzio
XII. Conclusion

About the author

By Joseph Francese

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Francese
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2021
• EAN: 9781683933328
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-332-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 493 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama