#silvio pellico

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2126- Verte, oírte, y no amarte.... no es humano.

(Silvio Pellico)

[ragazzoarcano]

“Vederti,

udirti,

e non amarti...

umana cosa non è.”

— Silvio Pellico

[seagullmagique]

[somehow---here]

L'uomo infelice ed arrabbiato è tremendamente ingegnoso a calunniare i suoi simili, e lo stesso Creatore. L'ira è più immorale, più scellerata, che generalmente non si pensa. Siccome non si può ruggire dalla mattina alla sera per settimane, e l'anima la più dominata dal furore ha di necessità i suoi intervalli di riposo, quegli intervalli sogliono risentirsi dell'immoralità, che li ha preceduti. Allora sembra di essere in pace, ma è una pace maligna, irreligiosa; un sorriso selvaggio, senza carità, senza dignità; un amore di disordine, d'ebbrezza, di scherno.

- Silvio Pellico, da Le mie Prigioni

[arnesaknussemm]

Ad amare l'umanità, è d'uopo saper mirare, senza scandalezzarsi, le sue debolezze, i suoi vizi.

Silvio Pellico

[awed-frog]

@hiddenlacuna - sorry that post was so cryptic - I just randomly looked up Silvio Pellico because apparently that’s what we talk about after work now - as a recap, he was an Italian writer and patriot from the 19th century who fought against Austria-Hungary (at that time, they owned half of Italy and there was a series of revolts to get them out). At some point he founded a newspaper, was arrested, sentenced to death, and ended up spending ten years in prison before being released. 

I must admit that I don’t know a lot about that period, but I always liked Pellico because I learned about him as a young girl and he was basically me (or, well: what 11-year-old me imagined I could be like if given the chance)? Like, a) he was a political activist and he fought for what he believed in, b) he loved Irish mythology, c) he wrote Dante fanfiction and d) during his time in prison, he managed to domesticate some spiders and kept them as pets. 

(And yeah, I did have a ‘spider phase’ for a few weeks after that - my mom was not happy.

My cat, on the other hand...)

So anyway, I was reading about him and the Wikipedia article seemed unusually harsh - turns out it was a copy/paste from a 1911 Enyclopedia Britannica entry, so then I went to check that out because reasons, and I found out this guy Hugh Chisholm wrote it and that he was and all-round dick? He wrote entries about Oscar Wilde (you can imagine what he had to say there) and the British Empire (ditto). And I know it’s a stupid thing to get upset about, but even in the 1910s, there were men who were not garbage, so this guy has zero excuses for being such a dick about stuff.

[destinyphoenix]

Silvio Pellico, "Le mie Prigioni"

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1338- VERTE, OÍRTE Y NO AMARTE, NO ES HUMANO.

(Silvio Pellico)