The essay analyses the sixth chapter of Fiori italiani by Luigi Meneghello. It highlights its composite and pluritonal nature, more pronounced than in the other chapters of the book, and focuses on three fascist characters. Cesare Bolognesi and Enzo Pezzato are two of the protagonist S.’s contemporaries, representing fates to which S. could also have been subjected (death in the war, joining the Italian Social Republic after 8 September 1943). Delineated with painful pathos, Carlo Barbieri (a figure little appreciated by critics), is a young man a few years older than the other two, the editor of the newspaper where S. will carry out a period of apprenticeship. This will have a significant formative function for the protagonist on a human and professional level and in the unmasking of fascism.
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Chapter Title
Il capitolo 6 di Fiori italiani: compagni contro-figure, un maestro «adulto» e «metropolitano»
Authors
Francesca Caputo
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8.44
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Meneghello 100
Editors
Francesca Caputo, Ernestina Pellegrini, Diego Salvadori, Franca Sinopoli, Luciano Zampese
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0565-8
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0566-5
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361