L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 24 No. 1 (2016): Issue 1/2016
Articles

Manzoni e la rivoluzione degli Stati Uniti

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  • Alice Crosta

Published 07/10/2016

Keywords

  • Manzoni,
  • United States,
  • revolution,
  • translations,
  • Guizot,
  • Bancroft
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How to Cite

Crosta, A. (2016). Manzoni e la rivoluzione degli Stati Uniti. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 24(1), 77–88. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/232
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Abstract

Manzoni’s essay on the French revolution includes an American chapter, in which the author regards the American revolution as more just and effective than the French revolution. In support of this thesis, he quotes several sources: George Bancroft’s History of the United States, the preface of the Declaration of Independence and the preamble of the Constitution of the United States. In this paper it will be proved that Manzoni, who did not know the English language, used some translations, which he did not quote in the footnotes: French translations of Bancroft’s History and of the Declaration of Independence, and an Italian translation of the
American Constitution.

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