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eBooks di Titolo M di Silvio Pellico
My Prisons: Memoirs. E-book. Formato PDF Silvio Pellico - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Pellico visited by his father. His filial piety. His res ignation to the horrors of a long imprisonment. Piero Maroncelli 39xxfi contents.
My Prisons: Memoirs of Silvio Pellico. E-book. Formato PDF Silvio Pellico - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
It was thus, by reflecting on the sweeping speed of time, that I bore up against passing misfortune. Alas, this did not prevent the forms of my father, my mother, two brothers, two sisters, and one other family I had learned to love as if it were my own, from all whom I was, doubtless, for ever cut off, from crossing my mind, and rendering all my philosophical reasoning of no avail. I was unable to resist the thought, and I wept even as a child.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment. E-book. Formato EPUB Silvio Pellico - Full Well Ventures, 2022 -
Silvio Pellico (1789-1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active n the Italian unification. He wrote various tragedies for theater and for a magazine. In 1820 he was arrested on a charge of carbonarism and sent to prison, sentenced to death in 1822, but later commuted to 15 years of jail, and released after ten years, in 1830. He wrote several more tragedies for theater in addition to an account of his prison sufferings.