O autor "florentino" da literatura suíça em língua italiana: Francesco Chiesa / The "florentine" author of Switzerlands literature in italian: Francesco Chiesa.

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2008

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ABSTRACT REDOSCHI, M.E. The "florentine" author of Switzerlands literature in italian: Francesco Chiesa. 2008. 90 pag. Masters Thesis - Faculty of Filosofy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH), Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2008. Switzerland is a country located at the center of western Europe with four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansch. The Helvetian Confederation has twenty-six highly autonomous administrative units, called Cantons, formed throughout history. Dantes language is present as the mother tongue of the bulk of Canton Ticinos population as well in four alpine valleys on the nearby Canton Grisons. There it shares space with Swiss-German and Romansch. The background for the formation of the Italian spoken in the region, which had standardized around tuscan rules from the sixteenth century - thanks to the quality of schools maintained by clerics such as Saint Charles Borromeo - is presented. The most modern grammars and teaching methods available at the time were used. At this crossroads of civilizations, with an inhabited area equivalent to the city of São Paulo and a few nearby suburbs, appeared Francesco Chiesa. He was the first Swiss author to effectively brave the italian book market, thus inscribing his regions name forever on the Italian language and literature textbooks. Added to his prolific production in prose and verse, is his longevous biography (1871-1973). Worthy of note are his activities as professor of italian, art history, journalist and supporter of his lands lombardic cultural and artistic heritage. In 1925 would be published Tempo di marzo, which would become his best known work abroad. A portrait of agrarian Ticino society at the early nineteen-hundreds, the romance is a lyric transposition of the regions historical realities. As the boy Nino moves toward the end of his childhood, we get to experience the geography, customs and traditions of yesteryear Ticino. By virtue of his clear, fluid, almost "manzonian" writing, the novel was discussed and taught at Northern Italy schools. It was used as a model in italian composition classes. Finished in 1943, Io e i miei, is a modernwork, within Chiesas style. Released right in the middle of wartime, logistical factors prevented the book from having a much deserved accolade. A sort of hybrid between a short story and a novel, it narrates the internal conflicts of a family of remarried widowers, the daughter Serafina and the son Manlio. In evidence are the fathers issues. A pessimistic tone, of quiet languishing and resignation, in contrast to the youthfulness and joy of Tempo di marzo strides the narrative. The melancholic account of deserted, decadent villages is compared to extracts of Il fondo del sacco, written third years later by the Grison native Plinio Martini, which had embraced realism themes. Francesco Chiesa was the first and most "Florentine" of Italian speaking Swiss authors.

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italiana literature switzerland culture italian suíça cultura literatura ticino ticino

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