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Ugo Iginio Tarchetti had a short life, rather similar to one of his male characters.As a dashing youngster, angry at old political and social conventions, he volunteered and fought for national independence (not quite in the frontlines though, he was in the Commissariat Corps). He then got disillusioned after witnessing what amounted to a tragic counterinsurgency action by the Italian (northern) Army itself in the Southern provinces of the newly united Kingdom. he resigned and subsequently developed uncompromising antimilitaristic views (expressed in another of his novels "A Noble Madness"), then died of illness in 1869, when he was only 30 years old.
he was one of the main writers of the so called "Scapigliatura", a late-romantic movement of "angry young men", and "Fosca" (his last unfinished work, completed by a close friend shortly after his death) is a good example of a "classic" gothic novel
Giorgio, a young army officer, is torn between two extreme passions, represented by the beautiful, angelical Clara and, on the dark side, Fosca (the two names literally translated in English have just the meaning of "fair" and "sombre" respectively)
Fosca is depicted in ever darker shades as physically ugly (actually, just horribly thin and emaciated), psychically unstable and pathologically empassioned with Giorgio.
As predictable, both love stories end dismally: Clara gives up Giorgio to return to her lawful duties towards family, husband and children; Fosca succumbs at last to consumption, not before having caused a near-deadly duel between Giorgio and her cousin, who is incidentally Giorgio's commanding officer
Alas, predictability seemed to me the key to the whole novel; it is a gothic romantic story fifty years late, after Goethe, Shelley, Poe.
It remains however a valid example of a literary genre which is otherwise rather lacking in 19th century Italian literature (rather Italy seems to have been an ideal set where to stage lots of romantic gothic stories, since Walpole's time).
I can suggest to read, to appreciate what is in my opinion Tarchetti's most outstanding contribution to the literary and social debate of his time, his novel I already mentioned, "A noble madness", where he gave an innovative and prescient outlook towards war and its horrors, anticipating the "war poets" of 1914-18
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Fosca di Iginio Ugo Tarchetti Italian Edition eBook Iginio Ugo Tarchetti Reviews
Ugo Iginio Tarchetti had a short life, rather similar to one of his male characters.
As a dashing youngster, angry at old political and social conventions, he volunteered and fought for national independence (not quite in the frontlines though, he was in the Commissariat Corps). He then got disillusioned after witnessing what amounted to a tragic counterinsurgency action by the Italian (northern) Army itself in the Southern provinces of the newly united Kingdom. he resigned and subsequently developed uncompromising antimilitaristic views (expressed in another of his novels "A Noble Madness"), then died of illness in 1869, when he was only 30 years old.
he was one of the main writers of the so called "Scapigliatura", a late-romantic movement of "angry young men", and "Fosca" (his last unfinished work, completed by a close friend shortly after his death) is a good example of a "classic" gothic novel
Giorgio, a young army officer, is torn between two extreme passions, represented by the beautiful, angelical Clara and, on the dark side, Fosca (the two names literally translated in English have just the meaning of "fair" and "sombre" respectively)
Fosca is depicted in ever darker shades as physically ugly (actually, just horribly thin and emaciated), psychically unstable and pathologically empassioned with Giorgio.
As predictable, both love stories end dismally Clara gives up Giorgio to return to her lawful duties towards family, husband and children; Fosca succumbs at last to consumption, not before having caused a near-deadly duel between Giorgio and her cousin, who is incidentally Giorgio's commanding officer
Alas, predictability seemed to me the key to the whole novel; it is a gothic romantic story fifty years late, after Goethe, Shelley, Poe.
It remains however a valid example of a literary genre which is otherwise rather lacking in 19th century Italian literature (rather Italy seems to have been an ideal set where to stage lots of romantic gothic stories, since Walpole's time).
I can suggest to read, to appreciate what is in my opinion Tarchetti's most outstanding contribution to the literary and social debate of his time, his novel I already mentioned, "A noble madness", where he gave an innovative and prescient outlook towards war and its horrors, anticipating the "war poets" of 1914-18
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