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Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli, Marchese d’

Born Oct. 24, 1798, in Turin; died Jan. 15, 1866, in Turin. Italian writer, artist, and political figure.

As a writer, Azeglio belonged to the romantic movement, continuing the line of historical novels begun with A. Manzoni’s The Betrothed. Among Azeglio’s most popular novels were The Tournament at Barletta, or Ettore Fieramosca (1833; Russ. trans., 1847, 1865, 1874, 1934, 1963) and Niccolò de Lapi (1841; Russ. trans., 1865), both of which fostered the growth of national self-awareness. In the 1840’s Azeglio, together with Balbo and Gioberti, was an ideologist and leader of the liberal wing in the Italian national liberation and unification movement. He came out against revolutionary methods of struggle, proposing the unification of Italy “from above,” under the leadership of the Savoy dynasty.

The idea of Italian unity was the basis of Azeglio’s work The Latest Events in Romagna (1846). In 1847 he published his Project for a National Program, which became the political credo for moderate Italian liberals. From 1849 to 1852, Azeglio was prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of Piedmont.

WORKS

Racconti, leggende, ricordi. Turin, 1918.

REFERENCES

Friche, V. M. Ital’ianskaia literatura XIX v. Moscow, 1916.
Vaccalluzzo, N. M. d’Azeglio. Rome, 1925.
Vismara, A. Bibliografia du M. d’Azeglio. Milan, 1878.

References in periodicals archive

The New Italy and the Jews: From Massimo D'Azeglio to Primo Levi

Here Comparini tackles the problematic relationship between Pavese and his influential instructor at the Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio, Augusto Monti.

Alberto Comparini. La poetica dei "Dialoghi con Leuco" di Cesare Pavese

At that time, Monti, born in 1881, was a teacher at the "Massimo D'Azeglio" Grammar School in Turin, a stronghold of anti-fascism, and Mila, Ginzburg, and Pavese, born between 1908 and 1910, were all students there.

MASSIMO MILA, THE PRISMATIC INTELLECTUAL: AN ARCHIVAL CASE STUDY

(6) Sono tutti episodi sintomatici di un nuovo e forte sentire--all'esempio manzoniano si devono aggiungere le atmosfere foscoliane e byroniane, la fortuna delle traduzioni dei romanzi di Walter Scott e di non poche opere che venivano d'oltralpe--che trova nella narrazione storica, e attraverso di essa la ragione di rappresentare la violenza come motore universale delle azioni umane, il veicolo privilegiato per un progetto di educazione e rappresentazione che si puo riassumere, semplificando, con la celebre frase attribuita a Massimo d'Azeglio, ovvero quel fare gl'Italiani che occupo parte non peregrina del pensiero ottocentesco italiano.

"Vogliam noi rubare il mestiere al boia?" Storia e violenza nel romanzo storico del primo Ottocento

The works of Manzoni, Berchet, Giusti, Aleardi, Nievo, Gazzoletti, Massimo d'Azeglio and others are crossed by the rivers, with the recurrent image of 'different floods', separated as far as they reach the sea, then 'losing their names and embracing each other'.

Guilty, sexual and local: Nature for the Nation in the Italian Narrative of the Bel Paese (19th century)

When statesman Massimo d'Azeglio remarked on the political consolidation of the Italian kingdom in 1861, he stressed the need to build a distinctive identity for its people.

A vision in leather

Pope Pius IX retreated to the Vatican where he declared himself "a prisoner." Italy was at last united, but as Cavour's mentor, the patriot, writer and artist Massimo D'Azeglio noted, "We have created Italy.

150 years of Italy

Primo: "L'Italia e fatta, ora bisogna fare gli italiani." Lo sappiamo tutti: cosi disse Massimo D'Azeglio all'indomani dell'unificazione del Paese.

Riccardo Giumelli. Lo sguardo italico. Nuovi orizzonti del cosmopolitismo

Shortly after independence in 1861, Massimo d'Azeglio, one of the ministers in the new government, is credited with having summed up all that had been accomplished - and much of what remained.

Who will turn the people of Lebanon into Lebanese?

Massimo d'Azeglio was Prime Minister of Piedmont at the time.

Changing loyalties

Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli, Marchese d'