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Storia Di Cristo
''The Story of Christ'' ( it, Storia di Cristo), published as ''Life of Christ'' in the United States, is a 1921 book by the Italian writer Giovanni Papini. It is Papini's retelling of the stories of the Biblical Gospels. Papini had a past as a prominent critic of Christianity, but had changed his mind and adhered to a type of Catholicism that had seen a revival in Italy during World War I. In ''The Story of Christ'', he treated the depiction of Jesus in the Bible as completely true and all four Gospels as of equal value. He wrote that his book was especially intended "for those who are outside the Church of Christ; the others, those who have remained within, united to the heirs of the apostles, do not need my words". ''The Story of Christ'' was widely discussed in Italy upon publication. The first edition of 20,000 copies sold out in a little more than a week. Five more Italian editions had been published by 1923, when Dorothy Canfield Fisher's English translation was published. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (9 January 18818 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and Italian philosophy, philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and Decadent movement, post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholic Church, Catholicism, and went from convinced Interventionism (politics), interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascism, fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism. As one of the founders of the Journalism, journals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
