Vita di una brigantessa, tra finzione letteraria e racconto storico

Many authors have written history and fiction papers about the story of Philomena Pennacchio, a key figure of the Italian post-unification brigandage. Her story and her character are a case study leading to the discussion about the relationship between history and narrative fiction. In some instances this meeting produced a genre, that I would call «historical feuilleton». In the middle of the following pages there is the comparison between the production of the history books, which tells the story of a young woman and her companion as an opportunity of revisionism of the national unification history, and the philologically accurate novel of a woman writer, Licia Giaquinto. The essay will demonstrate the cognitive force of the fictional novel, dropping the small personal story, worth of a micro-history, in a social and cultural well-defined context. Exactly the opposite of the biography in the form of feuilleton, which is now more popular.;

Keywords:Brigantaggio, letteratura, microstoria, l’oleografia delle brigantesse, risorgimento, story e history

Guido Panico, Vita di una brigantessa, tra finzione letteraria e racconto storico in "HISTORIA MAGISTRA" 18/2015, pp 126-136, DOI: 10.3280/HM2015-018013