| + + − | Dial. 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 370w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w. |
Fogazzaro, Antonio. [Patriot]; tr. from the Italian with an introd. by M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.
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“The patriot” is a “vivid portrayal of social life in Italy in 1848, the year of the tidal wave of revolution. This was the period when Italian patriotism burned fiercest, the period when the idea of a united Italy was born in the national consciousness. It is the epoch of his country’s martyrdom which the novelist describes in these throbbing pages—the ten years of ‘deadly, cold, and awful silence stretching from the disastrous field of Novara to the glorious days of Magenta, Solferino, and San Martino (1849–59).’”—Lit. D.
“The translation is excellent.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 78. Mr. ’07. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21. ’07. 120w. |
“It is the epoch of storm and stress when the iron hand of Austria prest most heavily upon Italian aspirations. It is no figure of speech to say that Fogazzaro’s characters are real. They are reality itself, palpitating with life, and are perfect types of that Italian patriotism which in our time founded a great nation.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 220w. |
“The translation is admirably vigorous and idiomatic, a true conveyance, one surmises, of a forthright and undecorated original.”