When: Saturday, November 14 from 4 PM to 5:30 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Center of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Professor Stephanie Jed and the Italian Cultural Center of San Diego present "I promessi sposi: Then and Now." Manzoni provides, in his representations of Spanish relations of ruling, both glimpses of an economy that has begun to link to a world capitalist system and glimpses of resistance to this globalizing model.
In my talk, I investigate the continuity of this resistance from the time of the Spanish occupation (represented in the novel) to later archival texts that document Austrian efforts, in the Lombard countryside, to control the movements of malviventi and the spread of the cholera epidemic (1836).
