My Ten Years' Imprisonment
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My Ten Years’ Imprisonment is by Silvio Pellico, translated from the Italian by Thomas Roscoe. The introduction says Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in North Italy, in the year of the fall of the Bastille, 1789, and that his health as a child was feeble, his temper gentle, and he had the instincts of a poet. The speaker asks, “And what else is Christianity but this constant ambition to elevate and dignify our nature?” and says, “In prison I finally determined to admit this conclusion, and I admitted it.”
In Chapter L, Tremerello comes into the speaker's room on the 11th of January, 1822, about nine in the morning, in no little agitation, and says there is a prison containing more than a hundred Carbonari in the island of San Michele, a little way from Venice. The speaker asks, “Is my poor friend Maroncelli among them?” and hears, “Ah, Sir, too many . . . I know not who.”
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- Silvio Pellico
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
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- European History
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