Category:Fiction--Italian

The page: Fiction--Italian, includes works of Cinema, Literature, and Music made in Italian language, from the XV century to the present.

• La passione di Gesù Cristo (1730 Metastasio), libretto
• La Gerusalemme convertita (1733 Zeno), libretto
• La clemenza di Tito (1734 Metastasio), libretto
• Ester d'Engaddi (1821 Pellico), play
• Nabucco (1842 Verdi), opera
• Cristo alla festa di Purim (1887 Bovio), play
• Quo Vadis? (1912 Guazzoni), film
• Christus (1916 Antamoro), film
• La storia di Cristo (1921 Papini), novel
• Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew / 1964 Pasolini), film
• Il quinto evangelio (1975 Pomilio), novel
• Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus of Nazareth (1977 Zeffirelli), film

In the 15th century Italian poets and playwrights inaugurated the traditions of literary works of entertainment dealings with "biblical" subject.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Itlian was the international language of music and hundreds of Italian oratorios were composed and performed all around Europe, Pietro Metastasio and Apostolo Zeno were the authors of some of the most popular librettos.

In the first half of the 19th century, in the climate of Italian Risorgimento, Italian scholarship produced a series of remarkable works. Some of them captivated the Italian imagination, gaining large popular success. The operas Ciro in Babilonia (1812) by Gioachino Rossini, and Nabucco (1842) by Giuseppe Verdi as well as the drama Ester d'Engaddi (1821) by Silvio Pellico, all focused on the Second Temple period. For some time italian patriots identified themselves with the Jews of that time, who like them were longing for freedom under the oppression of foreign nations (the Babylonians and then the Romans). To avoid censure without loosing the political implications of the story, in 1844 Giovanni Pacini gave a Second Temple Jewish setting ("in the times of Vespasian") to Eugène Scribe's drama La Juive, which Jacques Fromental Halévy had already set to music in 1835 in France in its original Inquisition setting. Pacini had already composed in 1825 another highly successful opera with a first-century setting, L’ultimo giorno di Pompei <The Last Day of Pompeii>, a work that did not make any reference to Judaism or Christianity, but would inspire Edward Bulwer Lytton's famous 1834 novel. In 1848 Giovanni Pacini also set to music Pellico's drama Ester d'Engaddi.

In 1887

In the 1890s Lorenzo Perosi revived the great traditions of Italian oratorios with a series of highly successful works centered on the life of Jesus.

Italian silent movies, Quo Vadis (1912) by Guazzoni and Christus by Antamoro, were lavish productions that caused international sensation and inspired a long series of biblical movies.

In the 1920s Giovanni Papini achieved international success with his Life of Jesu, which was translated in numerous languages.

After the war, Italian cinema experienced an extraordinary season of renewal. In "The Gospel according to Matthew (1964) Pier Paolo Pasolini drew on the lesson of Italian neo-realism to offer a sensitive and "true" portrait of a very human Jesus as the champion of the poor and the oppressed.

In the 1970s, two Italian novels attracted some international attention, "The Fifth Gospel by Pomilio, and the Work of Betrayal by Brelich.

• Christ at the Feast of Purim = Cristo alla festa di Purim (1894 @1887 Bovio / Scott-Uda), play (English ed.)
• Cristo en la fiesta de Purim = Cristo alla festa di Purim (Christ at the Feast of Purim / 1902 @1887 Bovio / Azzati), play (Spanish ed.)
• Kristuksen historia = Storia di Cristo (Life of Christ / 1924 @1921 Papini / Hedman), non-fiction (Finnish ed.)
• Krisztus története = Storia di Cristo (Life of Christ / 1925 @1921 Papini / Fülep), non-fiction (Hungarian ed.)
• حياة المسيح = Storia di Cristo (Life of Christ / 1929 @1921 Papini), non-fiction (Arabic ed.)
• The Salt of the Earth = Il sale della terra (1967 Monterosso / Quigly), novel (English ed.)
• Das fünfte Evangelium = Il quinto evangelio (The Fifth Gospel / 1977 @1975 Pomilio / Windisch-Graetz), novel (German ed.)
• L'oeuvre de trahison = L'opera del tradimento (The Work of Betrayal / 1979 @1975 Brelich / Piasecki), novel (French ed.)
• El quinto evangelio = Il quinto evangelio (The Fifth Gospel / 1979 @1975 Pomilio / Pentimalli), novel (Spanish ed.)
• Piata Ewangelia = Il quinto evangelio (The Fifth Gospel / 1979 @1975 Pomilio / Minkiewicz), novel (Polish ed.)
• The Work of Betrayal = L'opera del tradimento (1988 @1975 Brelich / Rosenthal), novel (English ed.)
• Navigator of the Flood = Il navigatore del diluvio (1991 @1979 Brelich / Shepley), novel (English ed.)
• The Holy Embrace = Il sacro amplesso (1994 @1972 Brelich / Shepley), novel (English ed.)
• Noyau d'òlive = Nocciolo d'oliva (2004 De Luca / Valin), novel (French ed.)
• L'ombre du père (2006 Pazzi), novel (French ed.)

• Les mémoires de Judas (1867 Petruccelli della Gattina), novel
• Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951 Menotti), opera

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