Ippolito Nievo

Confessions of an Italian

Italian Risorgimento novel from peasant's perspective of revolution

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Ippolito Nievo
Ippolito Nievo

Italian author whose Confessions of an Italian is an enormous historical novel covering sixty years of Italian and European history through the eyes of a participant in the Risorgimento. It is considered the great novel of Italian unification.

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