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From the intro: "THE story of Graziella is a leaf torn from the personal memoires of the famous French historian, poet and orator who wrote it,—brightened by his smiles and moistened with his tears. Had it not been for Graziella, “Les Confidences” of Lamartine might never have been published. Many years after this Italian romance of his youth as late as 1843 Lamartine went into retreat on the island of Ischia to write his “History of the Girondists.” He was in sight of the isle of Procida where Graziella had lived and he had loved, and his hours of recreation were passed under the shade of a lemon tree, writing out the recollections of this charming episode. It was while he was thus engaged one day, that his friend, Eugene Pelletan, surprised him with a visit. Pelletan was curious to know what Lamartine was doing, and the latter, on the impulse, read him a few pages from his journal. Pelletan was much moved at the recital, and, when he returned to Paris, told a publisher of that city he might make his fortune if he could secure these recollections of Lamartine’s youth. The following Autumn, when Lamartine had returned home, he received a letter from the publisher offering him any price he would name for his journal. Though the improvident author was then in embarrassed circumstances, he declined the offer. Some years before, he had purchased the estate at Milly on borrowed money, that he might die in the old homestead. He was now forced to part with a portion of it. A week after the first offer for the Recollections, came another letter from Paris importuning their publication. The second letter was received at the moment a notary was drawing the deed for the sale of the Milly estate; Lamartine was in a humor to accept any alternative rather than part with the house hallowed by so many sacred associations. He seized the deed from the table, tore it in fragments, and wrote to the Paris publisher: “I accept.” Omitting a brief sojourn in Rome, this little volume includes all of Lamartine’s first visit to Italy from the time he left his home at Milly,—a hamlet nestling in the valley of the Saone, on the road from Macon to the old abbey of Cluny, where Abelard died. He was traveling with a relative who was called to Leghorn on business, and it was intended that he should return home from there; but his strong desire to see Rome and Naples induced him to write to his father for permission to visit those cities. He was then but eighteen years old. Having written, he resolved to preclude disobedience by going without waiting for a reply. “If the refusal comes,” he said, “it will come too late. I shall be reprimanded, but I shall be forgiven; I shall return, but I shall have seen.” His impressions of Rome were vivid and his descriptions singularly picturesque, but as they are not pertinent to the story of Graziella they are omitted, thus offering alone what he has himself called “that mournful and fascinating presentiment of love.”
- Sales Rank: #3594965 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .25" w x 6.00" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 108 pages
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A Gem In The Genre of First Love Story
By Yen-yi Wu
This is a reprint of the Book "Graziella: A Story of Italian Love" originally published by Jansen, McClurg & Co in 1886. It was written by the French poet, historian and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 - 1869) in an autobiographic account of his travel to Italy at the age of eighteen and how he met a young girl, Graziella, who fell in love with him. It captured masterfully the longing and agitating hearts of young lovers in immortal prose in a confessional fashion in which the vague impulses of youth so beautiful in their madness, the anguish of longing, unbearable hurt, and breathtaking joy of loving pervaded every line of the story. The book was originally written in French and was translated into English by James B. Runnion.
The story began in spring of 1808, when Lamartine went to Naples where he met a young Frenchman of about his ages, Avmon de Virieu, to whom he had attached a life-long friendship. Lamartine and his friend were very fascinated with the life of the fishermen of Posilippo. They resolved to form a closer acquaintance with these fishermen and eventually joined an old fisherman, Andrea and his grandson, Beppo whom they met at the beach of Margellina by offering the old fisherman to be his oarsmen in exchange for going fish with them. On a stormy day in September, they were forced to sail to the nearby Procida, where Andrea's wife and his granddaughter, Graziella, Beppo's sister, and two other little brothers were living in a house on the cliff.
Graziella - "her eyes, large and of oval shape, were of that undecided color between deep blue sea and darkest black, which tones down the natural radiance by a certain softness of expression and unites in the woman's eye the gentleness of her soul and the force of her passion in about equal proportions, the kind uniquely possessed by Asian and Italian women. They were borrowed from the brilliant light of their fiery days and from the serene blue of their heaven, their sea, and their night. Her checks were round, full and plump, with a natural pale complexion, but a little browned by the climate, resembled the color of marble exposed for centuries to the air and sea. Her mouth, with slightly full and larger lips than those of our women, had the characteristic lines of frankness and goodness. Her teeth, small and shining, sparkled in the fluttering light of the torch like the shells of pearls glistering at the bottom of a wave under the ray of sun."
When the family returned to Margellina for the winter Lamartine opted to stay again with the family in Margellina instead of going home with his friend. "I should have gone back with him. I don't know what charm of isolation and adventure kept me. Life on the sea, Andrea's little house, image of Graziella, may all had something to do. But the unrestrained freedom, passion for the mysterious and longing for the undiscovered, the ethereal perspective of young imaginations counted for more."
For the next three months, he lived as a member of the Andrea family. The affection between him and Graziella grew naturally as they were both of the age longing for love. For Graziella, it was her first love, deep, passionate and pure. Her hope was to keep him close to her while worried about someday he would leave her. For Lamartine, it was a brotherly love, he was immensely happy with Graziella. He taught her to read and write and knew in his heart that Graziella lived only on the existence of him, without him there was no meaning of life in her
"This was not love; I felt neither the palpitation, the jealousy nor the absent-mindedness of passion. This was the delicious repose of the heart instead of a fever of the soul and senses. I did not want to love her in other way, nor to be loved more. I did not know if she was a companion, a friend, or a sister to me, all I knew was that she and I were happy when we were together."
The emotional awakening of the heroine in love for the first time in her life and the belated emotional awakening of the hero to the fact that the irrevocable has happened, formed the peak of the story. Then the hero wavered, and let the happiness slipped. He only came back to mourn the loss of it with deep regret.
"I was at that ungrateful age when spirit of levity and fashion makes a young man ashamed of the best sentiments of his soul, a cruel age when the grandest gifts of God, pure love and innocent affections, fall in the dust and are carried away in their bloom by the wind of the world."
"Ah! One who is too young cannot understand the value of love. He knows the value of nothing. He can not appreciate true happiness until after he has lost it." "True love is the ripe fruit of the lifetime. At eighteen years one does not know it; one only imagines it. I have often thought about it since I have been able to count the gray hairs in my head. I blamed myself for not appreciating the preciousness of her love. I had only vanity, which is among the worst of all our vices. I even blushed when happiness knocked on my heart."
There are many novels about first love among which are: First Love, by Russian poet and novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883), and The Sorrows of Young Werther, by German poet, novelist, and playwright Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749- 1832). If you love them, you'll love Graziella also.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully and poetically written, I would have been happy to read 100,000 pages of such tender and heart wrenching words.
By decadent one
I will now look for more of this authors work. Delightful to read, well spent time for any "romantic".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Romance at it's best.
By Steven Almond
Nothing sweeter than a 19th century romance set in Italy. One can smell the environment even after 100 years and be transported effortlessly back to the day the story was conceived.
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