New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-27
ITALIAN LITERATURE SINCE l84S.
IL.
ROMANCE AND THE DRAMA.
rn,Nrr.cn nnMENICO GIHRRAZ

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,c,l romance Of which need Dot speak, a. .s'
,..,,,..r. have made IL known in America. Guerras.
=. d; ,. a, ~ most celebrated living writers 10 fts-
>, I'D, h.. minor work his historical ronasces,
t. gc,tog,,a 4, B,n,reHt0 ani L. Asssdio a. fi'es,e
o,,,,hote1 sr,at!, 70 his fame. The invasios
-, M. bv cha..c. aAriou. summoned by Pops
r, IL "a m. dovu,al Of the Ho1re Of SyetiA
,,,l the coss Of the 18Th century, torns the sub
irot of the Balti, of BeAere.fo. ~nne the Srgs 81
Ei-r.c, embraces tie his; ~ Of the eisven month";
,.,,,, ,be tloreuiiues agan', the srmie' Of the
r. p.pr Charles v, tie ell y o; Pope Clement VII.
rtao and ,b.;r Al s.crfce. Both works, esps
c.a,, the second brt,ke the vigorous intellect d
the w.,,er. Ihe Pm ciPal persopases are AlanA'n'
y,,coi. Benes.tto IL F.j-rro, M,ccbisvslh, Fenucc
Mcle Anglo. Ch,Iles V, AMI Ci"men; VII al
tou, s,aua forth cis,iuct Ike statues flesh from the
scupt.r'. cr,sel. TIE Sogeof Florence ma, DC more
IT., t.ru ed On epic pom than romance. IL i' tie
I,v If TIE uidde ages Dying. Or rather undergoing
,ra, sormstiun. CONCENTRATING the remainder OF hs
.,oi,v around ber Le>rt, sruuod Fiorencs.
s,o n psr Gual struggle performing miracles
~, ,-,,.ue of grandeur aud %. sscrhce. Al
,bs battle o. G.yuans Michel Argelo sets the seal
900 ro.vuss the Phrase on tie Ai-torios epoch
.b;cb commenced With the battle Of Legnano aud
With pa,,s In the treatment Il has subject ''uer'
rnzz Sc. ms ipspir,d by the hatred of enrm'-' raia
than b, the love Of country; he Slghs Tor hah1
.usrc,p.,iou not so much for the good II may eues
p. 10 graft, b., th,rst for vengeance. Return, %
"r,tu1r. We ia,s so desired by lt,iao pride he eI
cls,us rev pge for airO,ious wrongs stu gladden.
"rhe spirit a. God He in 1910, and the CON-
psrison b.iw,eu the virue ~ toe past aid the sos
ure,eut rendered m ecredulous rs t. the iutufe Of
hry country feel NJ Of despair winds t'elf, 'lke
IN oud ebout hs thoughts. He paints the strocioui
c,ru.s tre diabolical lnfamles which from time 70
tu.e OBS, ure human nature Ike eclipse, without
revrg he picture by the virtues which ray through
the Gloom or Il he allows them for moment 10 aP
pear III. but a. s meteor light. I'aly, debased By
three Centuries Of slavery, needed thunder-storm
Z, arouse her from her degradation, AMI GueTatsrs
voros were thcndeibclis; but, o'ce aroused, the
breath Of hope waited toluspre her vita energy
20 Or pare Der fer the life when even then
wss dawring and Gu-razzi only cried, Despair
ard die" lie had dtu'k to intoxication at tns
Byruu'c fourtsio bus IN his works the pre-
sentiment If the future which forms one of the ele
meut of the graz dt Of the great English poet are
WAITING At the outbreak of the revolution OF is5
he became Mu's'cr Of the Grand-Duke OF Tuscany
and when the Dpke fled remained chef Of the STATE
In politics he followed Maccbavel to the letter
sncrfioed principles to expectancy, aud instead oil
uuItii Tuscany to Rome labored 10 reenthrone the
Duke. he despot-. profting by his preparations,
uyer,hr.w Gueuazzi and Imprisoned hm, and the
Ora. Duke, on he return, with the usual gratitude
Of princes kept him four years pr oner and then
a,ur lio into exile. aud Ia exile Guerrazzi wrote
EAnHo. This work IL the photograph of Guerrazzis
soul. Fresh adversely, the ruin of his ooun'rys
hopes together With lie own personal misiortunes.
had e,i bfmec his contempt for TIE human race and
rendered his skcpticism dogmaic; ana while in his
.Imer W. k ne wcp tear, OF blood while oursng tho
d,geIelaiou of bis countrymen, now, assuming the
gsrb OF Meph.tophcs, he drags them by the ears to
the plofy, pet- them with mud t1en points TO their
buuaaii IN anr their wouns with suile of bItterest
irony. LAstno is allegory. che AUTHOR tegns to
relate u dream shch he had during his Imprisonment
IN the Mural uf Florence. lie dreamed that the
udp day had arrived and the extinct generations
wrle run mobed TO receive their sentence Such mon
a. could get themselves together some sort Of body
in which to appear, had already b ca judged, aud an
adiounu ent Of 10 go years granted to suci a.
had sought their lat bunrs and snews,
muscles AID fe-h 10 vain the recording
angels finGing themselves unable 70 recognize the
individual :, who presented themselves ceyOrd OF
heads, limbs trunks, as the c.se mgbt be-, and
row ibe animals summoned TO the uls ment eest.
TIE brute creation Of tbOusaods IF worlds appearing
s the Poygiots summoned To the rescue-from
Mithrida.es who spoke twenty.eIght languages, to
Cardinal Mezzofrnt who spoke seveuty-eight-bu!
alas! understood the language Of tue beasts, 70
Solomon is appointed Judge Grea, their joy, for
they remembered that be had asserted the future Of
10 De the ~ that Of the brutes, not Knowing
whether the spirits of the sons of uen scared high
tnose Of the brutes went below. After consulting
together they resolve TO assert their right to imno
tally, and ASH 10 the the task oi pleading thei
cause Def 10 solomon. The oil philosopher and ors
COR estend the platform and commences his DISCOURSE
IL which the book Of 600 pages oou5iets. With va&
cspay Of erucition, often absuuse, the com
ueices by b COMPARE alive examination of the actions
Of mankind and Of animals; passes in review msts'
pbyscs history, religion the physical and mental
qualities Of ard beast aud elbows up sill the con-
ctions the sbsuoltes the errors, crimes and sa'
prstitioLs Of the former; asserts that the brutes arc
superior 10 mankind all me- sl and in many physical
qusiti = al thus concludes: A" If this be true and
/" have demonstrated it, truth beyond doubt--f
nen are nritber wiser, happier nor more innocea!
" tran the brutes, wty are they to so above
4" aud we below? Such q sentence would DO
A" most inqui GUS Whereupon Solomon retires
the author swakes, and We have means Of
asceraning the sentence of the Judge. 1t is easyn
corce ye that the value of the book does not consist
in It's Structure but in it. parts, wherein collected
trea, ures of ideas, observations, descriptions and
ullee of every form and hue, with which Gaer
razz,s intellect ever increasingly abounds. Anotss
merit Of the book is lie style, aud though he hp
stucded it vito Tuscan phrases and antquated e.
a. a. &, al