{"product_id":"life-2","title":"Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe theatrical tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803), Italy’s greatest dramatist of the late 1700s, feature themes and elegant verse that perfectly reflect his neoclassical age. \u003cem\u003eLife\u003c\/em\u003e presents Alfieri’s autobiography, detailing a journey that was anything but measured and orderly, giving the modern reader an entertaining and insightful view of privileged life and travel in pre-Napoleonic Europe and the gradual (and late) development of a cultured, literary mind. Alfieri leads us through childhood humiliations in Torino, introductions to popes and sovereigns, love affairs scandalous and noble, Baltic ice storms, treks across Spain, a late-night duel in London, a narrow escape from revolutionary Paris, venereal inconveniences, and the difficulty of breaking into the literary establishment. A stubborn and proud man, Alfieri includes in his memoirs enough self-awareness and self-deprecation to make his character engaging and often sympathetic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new translation, the first in seventy years, includes footnotes describing places, people, and events largely unfamiliar to twenty-first-century readers plus Alfieri’s own appendices – letters, poems, early drafts of scenes – translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Vittorio Alfieri\u003cBR\u003eEdited, Translated, and Annotated by Gianpiero W. Doebler\u003cBR\u003eWith an Introduction by Giorgio Ficara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43576674255030,"sku":"9781487556341","price":59.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487556341_5ac707ef-a3ea-4cae-a89d-870515e69d73.jpg?v=1727471378","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/life-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}