ITA310H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Porta Pia, Italian Unification
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De amicis from the apennines to the andes (cid:1) Comes from a famous text called il libro cuore (the book of/from the heart) Work was published in 1886, shortly after italian unification. Structure is highly significant of the text the particular story is out of context. Mission of the book is a journey towards the making of citizenry no matter how sappy it may be, the motif is used as a wonderful tool of the beginning of a didactic mission. Picked a classroom which is highly representative of the different components of this heterogeneity that was present in the country i. e. differences at the time of its making. His mission was to instruct/build and teach through marco (the main character) who learns about virtues, duties, responsibility, faithfulness, how human nature is and about his own self. The book in itself is a diary, and at the end of every month a new story was read.
