Vita di una brigantessa, tra finzione letteraria e racconto storico
Journal title HISTORIA MAGISTRA
Author/s Guido Panico
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/18
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 126-136 File size 98 KB
DOI 10.3280/HM2015-018013
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Many authors have written history and fiction papers about the story of Philomena Pennacchio, a key figure of the Italian post-unification brigandage. Her story and her character are a case study leading to the discussion about the relationship between history and narrative fiction. In some instances this meeting produced a genre, that I would call «historical feuilleton». In the middle of the following pages there is the comparison between the production of the history books, which tells the story of a young woman and her companion as an opportunity of revisionism of the national unification history, and the philologically accurate novel of a woman writer, Licia Giaquinto. The essay will demonstrate the cognitive force of the fictional novel, dropping the small personal story, worth of a micro-history, in a social and cultural well-defined context. Exactly the opposite of the biography in the form of feuilleton, which is now more popular.
Keywords: Brigandage, literature, micro-history, representation of brigand women, the Risorgimento, story and history.
Guido Panico, Vita di una brigantessa, tra finzione letteraria e racconto storico in "HISTORIA MAGISTRA" 18/2015, pp 126-136, DOI: 10.3280/HM2015-018013