La Brigantessa
Gold Medal winner in the Historical Fiction category of the 2019 Independent Publisher Book AwardsLa Brigantessa is based on true events in the aftermath of Italy's 1861 Unification, a turbulent period known as The Decade of Fire (1860-1870), when scores of brigands rebelled against the harsh policies imposed by the new government, which in turn ordered the destruction of these outlaws and anyone harbouring them. Gabriella Falcone is a peasant girl who works for Don Simone, the parish priest. She is forced to flee her hamlet of Camini in 1862 after stabbing Alfonso Fantin, a wealthy landowner who sexually assaulted her. Devastated to leave he…
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- ISBN: 978-1-77133-554-6
- EAN: 9781771335546
- Produktnummer: 32980738
- Verlag: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'606 KB
Über den Autor
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli was born in Italy and immigrated to Canada with her family at three years of age. Rosanna started teaching children from Kindergarten to Grade 8 in both the English and French Immersion sectors in 1981, and has four provincial Best Practice Teaching Awards in recognition of her early literacy strategies and other initiatives. An alumna of the Humber School for Writers, her fiction has appeared in a dozen Canadian anthologies, including Mamma Mia: Good Italian Girls Talk Back (2004) and A Second Coming: Canadian Migration Fiction (2016). Since retiring from teaching in June 2015, Rosanna is pursuing her literary goals full-time. La Brigantessa is her debut novel. She lives in Sudbury, Ontario.
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