Riccardo Bacchelli
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Riccardo Bacchelli
(1891–1985). One of the few modern Italian novelists with a vast and varied production to his credit. Born into a well-off liberal family in Bologna , he studied literature at university there under Pascoli , though he did not take his degree. He published his first novel, Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clò, in 1911, and was already writing for La Voce and Il Resto del Carlino before World War I , in which he served as an artillery officer. He was among the founders of La Ronda in 1919 with Emilio Cecchi and Vincenzo Cardarelli . He wrote and published extensively during the Fascist period, and was recognized as a major literary figure, becoming a member of the Accademia d'Italia in 1941. The works for which he was most highly regarded were his historical novels, beginning with Lo sa il tonno (1923) and Il diavolo al Pontelungo (1927). These look back to Manzoni for their mixture of factuality and invention, though Bacchelli was constantly reshaping his style, bringing together popular, literary, and erudite strands in often distinctive combinations. His most famous work, a best-seller in the 1950s thanks to a TV adaptation, is the three-volume Il mulino del Po (1938–40), which presents the story of a family from the Napoleonic era to World War I . In addition Bacchelli's creative work includes a large number of novelle (among them some fables), poetry, and plays. He also published various books of travel writing and critical essays on 19th-c. Italian literature and opera .
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Riccardo Bacchelli
Riccardo Bacchelli (Italian pronunciation: [rikˈkardo bakˈkɛlli]; Bologna, 19 April 1891 – Monza, 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer.
His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ (The wonderful thread of Lodovico Clo). Then he wrote La città degli amanti (The City of Lovers). He was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize. His more popular work was Il mulino del Po (The Mill on the Po), (1938–1940). A film from the novel was released in 1949.
Later novels from 1967 to 1978 include: Il rapporto segreto (The secret relationship), Afrodite: un romanzo d'amore (Aphrodite: a love novel), Il progresso è un razzo (Progress is a rocket) and Il sommergibile (The submarine).
Riccardo Bacchelli was a member of the Royal Academy of Italy. He was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1971.[1]
Il mulino del Po
The novel narrates in more than 2000 pages the lives, adventures and problems of Lazzaro Scacerni, who comes back from Russia where he had been a soldier of Napoleon, and his family, through a full century till the First World War. Lazzaro owns a mill on the river Po (hence the title) and, as well as his descendants, finds himself amid political turmoil, wars, economical hardship, class conflicts.
The historical, geographical and social background was painstakingly researched by Bacchelli, who was able to build a very large and comprehensive portrait of life in rural Italy in the 19th century.
The language and style of this novel show that Bacchelli held Alessandro Manzoni as his model; the structure of Il mulino del Po reveals the author's attention to contemporary European novels.[2]
References
- ^ Presidenza della Repubblica - Le Onorificenze: Riccardo Bacchelli.
- ^ "strutture narrative spesso acute e sottili, che mostrano una notevole attenzione alle forme del contemporaneo romanzo europeo" (Giulio Ferroni, Profilo storico della letteratura italiana, Einaudi scuola, Milano 1992, p.956)
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