Category:Italian language--1800s

The category: Italian--1800s, includes works in Italian language made between 1800 and 1849.

In the first half of the 19th century, in the climate of Italian Risorgimento, Italian scholarship produced some remarkable works. It started in 1802-07 with the historiographical and bibliographical work on Jewish and Arabic literature by Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi, Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Parma. It went on in 1820 with a jewel of Enochic research, a commentary on the Greek fragments of Enoch by sixteen-year-old Daniele Manin, and in 1844 with the work of Giuseppe Marchi on the Roman catacombs. The climax was the publication in 1844 of the Storia degli Ebrei e delle loro sette e dottrine religiose durante il secondo tempio by Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini, a comprehensive introduction to Second Temple Judaism that stands up for its critical analysis of ancient sources, its unapologetic view of Christian origins, and its "modern" approach to Jewish diversity. Giovini found a brilliant respondent in Samuel David Luzzatto, the leading authority of Italian Jewish scholarship of the time, who also offered in 1848-52 his view on Second Temple Judaism.

Along with the scholarly production, some works of fiction 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 italians identified themselves with Jews of that time, who like them were longing for freedom under the oppression of foreign nations (the Babylonians and then the Romans). The Italian version gave a Second Temple Jewish setting even to Halevy's La juive.

• Dizionario storico degli autori ebrei e dello loro opere (1802 De Rossi), book
• Dizionario storico degli autori arabi più celebri e delle principali loro opere (1807 De Rossi), book (Italian)
• Ciro in Babilonia (1812 Rossini), opera
• Degli Egregori (On the Watchers / 1820 Manin), book (Italian)
• Ester d'Engaddi (1821 Pellico), play
• Nabucco (1842 Verdi), opera
• Storia degli Ebrei e delle loro sette e dottrine religiose durante il secondo tempio (1844 Bianchi-Giovini), book
• Archittetura della Roma sotteranea cristiana (1844 Marchi), book
• Il giudaismo illustrato nella sua teorica, nella sua storia e nella sua letteratura (1848-1852 Luzzatto), book

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