{"product_id":"9781487556341","title":"Life","description":"Author: Vittorio Alfieri\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487556341\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 362 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theatrical tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (17491803), Italy's greatest dramatist of the late 1700s, feature themes and elegant verse that perfectly reflect his neoclassical age. Life presents Alfieri's autobiography, detailing a journey that was anything but measured and orderly, giving the modern reader an entertaining and insightful view of privileged life and travel in pre-Napoleonic Europe and the gradual (and late) development of a cultured, literary mind. Alfieri leads us through childhood humiliations in Torino, introductions to popes and sovereigns, love affairs scandalous and noble, Baltic ice storms, treks across Spain, a late-night duel in London, a narrow escape from revolutionary Paris, venereal inconveniences, and the difficulty of breaking into the literary establishment. A stubborn and proud man, Alfieri includes in his memoirs enough self-awareness and self-deprecation to make his character engaging and often sympathetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new translation, the first in seventy years, includes footnotes describing places, people, and events largely unfamiliar to twenty-first-century readers plus Alfieri's own appendices  letters, poems, early drafts of scenes  translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919613837470,"sku":"ING-9781487556341","price":148.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487556341.jpg?v=1782813977","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487556341","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}