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Carlo Alianello, born March 20, 1901 in ­Rome and died April 1, 1981 in the same city, was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is one of the most important authors.

Biography
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Carlo Alianello was born in Rome in 1901. He studied in Florence and in Rome, graduating in Literature. He is currently teaching Italian Literature at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art School. Among his main works: "The Theater of Maeter-linck", "The Bishop", "The King's Soldiers", "Mary and her Brothers".

Literary work
The echo of the press-Giovanni D’Alde

The Standard Bearer

The Bishop is one of those novels that arouses controversy and makes even the most inexperienced reader discuss. This is the first literally successful attempt to give a new interpretation of italian Risorgimento. This novel is intended to be only an ideal vindication of the heroism of the Neapolitans who remained loyal to the Bourbons and sacrificed themselves for their fidelity to the flag that is increasingly worthy of admiration and memory. The standard bearer has become the symbol of all those who rightly fight for a lost cause and consequently find their motive of interest and topicality in it, true or claimed, polemical correspondence with the situation that arose in the last and painful war supported by the Italians.

The narrative trilogy and its revisionist value
"What makes your novel relevant?"

• "The book written in '41, was released because of the war only in '43. The main reason for its popularity was the vision of my Naples that was shattered without any apparent cause, without any decisive impact, by internal dissolution. It perfectly mirrored reflected the situation in Italy at that time. The anti-barbon grumbling I represented was actually very similar to the anti-fascist grumbling. It became a must read among the neo-fascists because it idealized fidelity to the flag, resistance to the extreme, making poetic the situation of remaining faithful in the midst of a mass of non-faithful. "

"The defense and exaltation of loyalty to the Fatherland, even in defeat, was one of the main reasons that prompted me to write "the Alfiere", so in it I also wanted to exalt the loyalty to Italy, of those who were dying for it. "

The autobiographical novel The writer or loneliness
Robinson's island

A completely autobiographical chapter, focused on the sense of loneliness that characterized the author's childhood and adolescence. A solitude sought and symbolized in the search for Robinson's island. There are several islands of his childhood, the first on the island of La Maddalena, when he was 7 or 8 years old. Loneliness is his playmate, because it allowed him to imagine what he wanted. He was alone on the island, because the other officers had no sons of his age to keep him company (page 6). But loneliness suits him, it gives him a quiet joy and involves a new search for things seen or imagined, a fantastic piece of sensations (page 8). The second island was in the Pistoia mountains, in a village called San Mommè. The house that hosted them was outside the village and, a short distance away, the Ombrone flowed and the author liked to dip his hand into its icy waters and stay still for hours listening to the roar of the waves, their soaring, their falling. The third island explored was a Ciociaria, at the age of 14. The town was called Morolo and the river Sacco flowed nearby, lapping a long strip of land: his new island. Here he spent long afternoons with the excuse of studying away from the noise and games of his cousins, actually to taste better and, more, the wind and water, the creatures and voices that were one song, like a long call ( page 13). Over the years the island has shrunk, it was first a garden, a lawn, a land, then a work room. For the writer, an island is necessary where, at least an hour a day, the soul settles down in conquered solitude (page 13). The chapter is about the search to touch Earth after a shipwreck, a landing place, but it is also a reliving of one's past, one's childhood, rediscovering impressions, colours, usual sensations, but never forgotten. Thus, from the past, the nuns of San Vincenzo de 'Paoli re-emerge with their white gull-wing cornets (page 14) or the attendants who serve in the house of the officers, the undisputed authority of the father and the slender figure, but no less authoritative than the mother. And also memories of a violent typhus that almost led to his death, the visits of Sister Agnes and her speeches about Jesus and Paradise, the occasional arrival of a warship followed by a dance at the Officers' Club, the parties organized for their boys "Fat Thursday, the Pentolaccia, the name day of the king"  (page 25).

List of Literary Works
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 * L'Alfiere, 1942

A famous critic, Ruggero Moscati, had in his hands "The Legacy of the Prioress" by Carlo Alianello published by Feltrinelli. He realizes that his first commitment as a critic must consist in the rather unusual defense of the book and the author from the laudatory presentation made by the publisher. If the critic Moscati had not read and loved Alianello's first novel "L’Alfiere", which another progressive publisher Einaudi published in 43 ', the merits attributed to this new novel of his would not have led him to read it. No historical-democratic work more rigorously points to the organic rot of the old kingdom. There is in Alianello the impartiality of a magistrate that have been made easy for him by his Catholicism, in fact one feels in him in the face of worldly regimes the same detachment that made Louis Veuillot say, although a legitimist, not to be the kings of the earth for a Christian. nothing other than “des percepteurs d'Impôts”.


 * Il mago deluso, 1947
 * Soldati del Re, 1952

The Manuscript of "L'Eredità della Priora"
Writing is also the art of revision. It is indeed a long and complex task. Before publishing his work, an author goes back again and again on what he has already written. Generally speaking, the quality of a book is higher the more often the pen has made significant changes. In the two photographs shown here, we can compare a page of the manuscript of Carlo Alianello's masterpiece "L'eredità della Priora" with the final version published. In the common imagination, it is often writer give thought that their work, sitting at the table, and remaining there to meditate on it for hours. Instead, inspiration and new ideas for improvement come in the most unexpected moments , for example , while drinking coffee , Therefore they need to point out an additional passage or to replace a word with the most straightforward means available : a pen , in this case. This continuous " polishing " of the text originates the main difference between the manuscript and the final edition because the author tends to change the words and lengthen the periods. It should also be noted that between the manuscript and the finished copy of the book, many parts of the speech are deleted and omitted. As you can see, the author used to type everything and when he went to readagain he used a pencil or a pen to erase or rewrite some parts. On this other page of the manuscript, the complexity of the writing process is even more evident, with all the deletions, additions and rethinking that follow one after the other. What immediately strikes the eye is the use of two pens of different ink: in fact, a composition does not come about overnight, but the birth of the work requires a difficult gestation period of considerable length.

In conclusion, we can all be able to smear a sheet of paper with words, but only an actual writer is able to ensure that the words, the colours to make a metaphor between language and painting, are able to convey a message as accurately and appropriately as possible.

Article 8

Ancient novel - Cesare Giardini

The legacy of the Prioress The novel has a duration of one year: that 1861 that followed the proclamation of unity. The action, after a brief start in Naples to which it corresponds, and at the end an equally short epilogue in Civitavecchia, takes place entirely in Basilicata, which was one of the regions that gave the Piedmontese the hardest time. The Prioress who appears in the book is a bit like the symbol of these rebellious people who do not want to accept the new order of things, and prefer to exhaust themselves in a savage, relentless struggle, which is not new. The novel touches the height of its tension when it describes how the gangs of the brigand Crocco and the Spanish general Borjes were on the point of taking Potenza and achieving a success that would have given the Bourbon movement a capital on the territory of the ancient kingdom, with unforeseeable consequences, including the intervention of some foreign power, Austria and France. That night, the failed assault on the city, for which the author keenly analyzes the reasons, was probably fatal for the fate of the Bourbon dynasty, and it is here that the novel finds its logical conclusion.

Article 9

From the literary chronicle of Enzo Fabiani Carlo Alianello, author of the Legacy of the Prioress, gold plaque of the "Il campiello" award is inspired by unknown episodes of the Risorgimento. His culture and his passionate need to re-hear the voices of those who have done something to make humanity a little more worthy, and his predilection for 19th century Italian military facts, have found in him a clear and generous storyteller. The idea of his latest work had already been wavering in Alianello's soul for some time, in fact in an interview he stated that he wanted to tell the story of the enterprise of a thousand and the conquest of the kingdom of Naples.

In conclusion, we can all be able to smear a sheet of paper with words, but only an actual writer is able to ensure that the words, the colours to make a metaphor between language and painting, are able to convey a message as accurately and appropriately as possible.

Work as a screenwriter
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