Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919

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Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919 is written by Paolo L. Bernardini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1443866709 (ISBN 10) and 9781443866705 (ISBN 13).

The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely treated as a subject of moral theology or literature, it suddenly became extremely widespread. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account of this phenomenon, taken from several angles, including literature, the arts, politics, society, and philosophy, as well as sociology. Its authors rank among the best international specialists on suicide, and the figures dealt with include major intellectuals and writers such as Ugo Foscolo, Emilio Salgari, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Giacomo Leopardi and Carlo Michelstaedter.