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


Fiction (Italian) -- Highlights
Fiction (Italian) -- Highlights

Fiction (Italian) -- History of research -- Overview
Fiction (Italian) -- History of research -- Overview

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.





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