Ammirazione o rivalità? Silvio Pellico nei “Mémoires d’outre-tombe”

Abstract

In certain chapters of his Mémoires d’outre-tombe, François-René de Chateaubriand extensively refers to Le mie prigioni by Silvio Pellico, where the author recounts his fate as a political prisoner under the Habsburg Empire. While undoubtedly testifying the Chateaubriand admiration for Pellico, these references also reveal an attempt to identify himself with the Italian writer and even to appropriate one of his characters.

Keywords

• french literature
• italian literature
• XIXth Century