Andrea Delfin

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Paul Heyse on a painting by Adolph Menzel from 1853

Andrea Delfin is a novella by the German Nobel Prize winner for literature Paul Heyse , written in 1859 and published in Berlin in 1862 .

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In August 1762 in Venice : The Capuchin Pietro Maria delivered a letter from the court clerk Andrea Delfin, signed with Candiano, to Angelo Querini, who was banished from Venice, in Verona . In it, the letter writer announced that he wanted to continue and complete Querini's unsuccessful project. Querini had declared war on the secret justice of Venice, that is, the State Inquisitors .

Andrea Delfin arrives from Brescia with three daggers in her luggage. The potential assassin has engraved “Death to all inquisitors” on the stabbing weapons. The orphan Andrea, descendant of aristocratic landowners from the Terraferma , more precisely from the Venetian governorate Friuli , comes to the lagoon metropolis as an avenger. For he thinks that the rulers of the republic are responsible for the death of their sister and brother. The starting point of the tribulation was a written complaint by the Delfin brothers against the governor of the Friuli province.

In Venice Andrea rents a room from Mrs. Giovanna Danieli, the widow of the glass blower Orso Danieli. The Inquisition also has the latter on its conscience. From the window of his room, Andrea can comfortably talk to Smeraldina, the maid of Countess Leonora Amidei, down the narrow lane della Cortesia. Smeraldina lets Andrea in. He is allowed to overhear a conversation between the Countess and the State Inquisitor Lorenzo Venier. The first of the three daggers ends the life of Mr. Venier.

The Jew Samuele, an experienced spy of the Signoria , recruits Andrea as an informant . Andrea receives his first assignment from the Council of Ten . He is supposed to spy out the intentions of Baron Rosenberg, the Austrian delegation secretary in Venice. That's good. Andrea met Rosenberg earlier while traveling. The acquaintance turns into friendship. Andrea eagerly reports only known details about the young Austrian to the Council of Ten. Baron Rosenberg goes in and out of Countess Leonora. The second dagger in Andreas' hand slips a little on the silk petticoat of the next State Inquisitor. The Lord survived, but the wound is life threatening. The third dagger is supposed to hit the State Inquisitor Ser Malapiero after a visit by Countess Leonora. In the dark in the alley, Andrea accidentally stabs his friend, the masked Baron Rosenberg.

Andrea Delfin doesn't want to live any longer. In one of the gondolas he can be rowed out of Venice towards the sea to the remote Capuchin monastery, confesses his mistake in a letter to Angelo Querini, hands the letter to the monk Pietro Maria with the request for another transport and drowns himself in the open sea.

reception

  • 1965: Gotthard Erler briefly discusses the role of the desirable woman in Heyses novelistic and notes, "... Leonora's charms serve as bait for the Inquisition ...".

expenditure

  • Andrea Delfin P. 123–231 in: Paul Heyse: The girl from Treppi. With an afterword by Gotthard Erler . 512 pages. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)
  • Andrea Delfin pp. 5–86 in: Paul Heyse: Andrea Delfin and other novels . bb series No. 167. 213 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1966 (1st edition) - Edition used

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  1. ↑ Paul Heyse invented all of the other personal names.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erler in the afterword of the 1965 edition, p. 497, 14. Zvo