Antonio Bresciani (writer)

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Antonio Bresciani
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Born24 July 1798
Ala, Trentino
Died14 March 1862
Rome

Antonio Bresciani (24 July 1798 – 14 March 1862) was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer, mostly known for his reactionary diatribes against liberalism and the Risorgimento.[1] The Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci used the terms "Brescianism" and "Father Bresciani's progeny" to describe literature of a conservative and populist bent.[2]

Anti-Semite[]

Bresciani's theories are characteristic of the "paranoid style" in politics, positing a Satanic conspiracy among secret societies and Jews to undermine the Christian order.[3] Bresciani's highly popular novel 1850 novel L'Ebreo di Verona (The Jew of Verona) shaped religious anti-Semitism for decades in Italy, as did his work for La Civiltà Cattolica, which he helped launch.[4][5]

Selected Works[]

  • Vita del giovane egiziano Abulcher Bisciarah, 1838
  • L'Ebreo di Verona, (1850)
  • Lorenzo, o il coscritto - racconto ligure (1856)
  • Della Repubblica romana (appendice de L'Ebreo di Verona), 1858
  • Ubaldo e Irene - racconti (1858)
  • La contessa Matilde di Canossa e Isabella di Groniga (1858)
  • La casa di ghiaccio o il cacciatore di Vincennes (1861)
  • Olderico, ovvero Il zuavo pontificio, racconto del 1860 (1862)
  • Lionello o delle Società Segrete (seguito de La Repubblica romana)
  • L'assedio di Ancona (incompiuto)

References[]

  1. ^ Lang, A. (2008). Converting a Nation: A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy. Springer. pp. 106–109.
  2. ^ Fluck, Winfried (2003). Theories of American Culture, Theories of American Studies. Gunter Narr Verlag. p. 146.
  3. ^ Dickie, John (2017). "Antonio Bresciani and the sects: conspiracy myths in an intransigent Catholic response to the Risorgimento". Modern Italy. 22 (1): 19–34. doi:10.1017/mit.2016.51. S2CID 151316711.
  4. ^ Brustein, William (2003). Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press. p. 76.
  5. ^ Feinstein, Wiley (2003). The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-semites. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 151–152.
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