Enrico IV

Scritto da Luigi Pirandello

Narrato da Narratori Vari

Salone nella villa rigidamente parato in modo da figurare quella che potè essere la sala del trono di Enrico IV nella casa imperiale di Goslar. Ma in mezzo agli antichi arredi due grandi ritratti a olio moderni, di grandezza naturale, avventano dalla parete di fondo, collocati a poca altezza dal suolo su uno zoccolo di legno lavorato che corre lungo tutta la parete (largo e sporgente in modo da potercisi mettere a sedere come su una lunga panconata), uno a destra e uno a sinistra del trono che, nel mezzo della parete, interrompe lo zoccolo e vi si inserisce col suo seggio imperiale e il suo basso baldacchino. I due ritratti rappresentano un signore e una signora, giovani entrambi, camuffati in costume carnevalesco, l’uno da «Enrico IV» e l’altra da «Marchesa Matilde di Toscana». Usci a destra e a sinistra.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Voci
• Data di uscita: 9 giu 2024
• ISBN: 9798882272431

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) was an Italian playwright, novelist, and poet. Born to a wealthy Sicilian family in the village of Cobh, Pirandello was raised in a household dedicated to the Garibaldian cause of Risorgimento. Educated at home as a child, he wrote his first tragedy at twelve before entering high school in Palermo, where he excelled in his studies and read the poets of nineteenth century Italy. After a tumultuous period at the University of Rome, Pirandello transferred to Bonn, where he immersed himself in the works of the German romantics. He began publishing his poems, plays, novels, and stories in earnest, appearing in some of Italy’s leading literary magazines and having his works staged in Rome. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), an experimental absurdist drama, was viciously opposed by an outraged audience on its opening night, but has since been recognized as an essential text of Italian modernist literature. During this time, Pirandello was struggling to care for his wife Antonietta, whose deteriorating mental health forced him to place her in an asylum by 1919. In 1924, Pirandello joined the National Fascist Party, and was soon aided by Mussolini in becoming the owner and director of the Teatro d’Arte di Roma. Although his identity as a Fascist was always tenuous, he never outright abandoned the party. Despite this, he maintained the admiration of readers and critics worldwide, and was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.