Vittoria: A Romance of the Milanese Rising
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Milan under the Austrians, 1848: a singer at La Scala is to give the signal for the rising from the stage, and half the conspirators do not trust her because her mother was English. Meredith wrote it as a sequel to Sandra Belloni and took the revolution from Italians who had fought it; the crowd scenes are the best he ever did, and the politics are unusually adult — everyone is brave and nearly everyone is wrong. Fifty-six plates of storm, harbour and opera-house scenes by painters including Munch and Achenbach carry the same theatrical weather that drives Meredith's rising.
Milan under the Austrians, 1848: a singer at La Scala is to give the signal for the rising from the stage, and half the conspirators do not trust her because her mother was English. Meredith wrote it as a sequel to Sandra Belloni and took the revolution from Italians who had fought it; the crowd ...
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George Meredith (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet. He worked as a reader for the publisher Chapman & Hall and served as a war correspondent for the Morning Post during the Austro-Prussian War. His novels include The Egoist, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and Diana of the Crossways.
George Meredith (1828–1909) was an English novelist and poet. He worked as a reader for the publisher Chapman & Hall and served as a war correspondent for the Morning Post during the Austro-Prussian War. His novels include The Egoist, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and Diana of the Crossways.
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