Antonio Bresciani (writer)

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]

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

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.
  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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.