The girl from Treppi
The girl from Treppi is a novella by the German Nobel Prize winner for literature Paul Heyse from 1855.
The novella has been translated into Italian (La franciulla di Treppi, 1863), Danish (Pigen fra Treppi, 1873), English (The Maid of Treppi, 1891) and Dutch (1964).
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Political opponents had driven the lawyer Filippo Mannini from Florence . His further political activity from Bologna had remained a thorn in the side of the enemy. Seizing his honor, Filippo had let himself be carried away to a duel - of all things with a marksman - in Pistoja . Smugglers had initially brought the lawyer from Poretta to the inaccessible Tuscan mountain village of Treppi. The difficult descent from the Apennines to Pistoja was imminent for the next morning.
In Treppi, Filippo spends the night in the house of the 22-year-old virgin Fenice Cattaneo. Both are surprised. Seven years earlier Filippo had visited the shepherd's village and got to know and love Fenice. While Filippo only has his political intrigues in his head, i.e. does not want to know anything about women, Fenice has waited for Filippo for years and given all suitors a basket. When Fenice learns of the upcoming duel down in Pistoja and Filippo ostentatiously turns away from her, the lifesaver takes action. During Filippo's night's rest, she rewards the smugglers and sends them away. In the morning Filippo has to go down to Pistoja with Fenice for a duel. Fenice leads the beloved astray. When he saw through the feint and marched in the right direction on his own, he fell into the rocky terrain. Fenice has the seriously injured man carried to her house by two shepherds and goes to Pistoja. She wants to excuse Filippo's absence from the duel. The next surprise: instead of the marksman, a police superintendent is waiting to arrest the lawyer. Fenice prevents that too.
After his recovery, Filippo comes to his senses. He says to Fenice: “My world is empty, my life is the prey of hatred, my old and my new home ban me, what should I still live if I have to lose you too!” Filippo withdraws from his enemies; goes to Genoa with his bride Fenice . Incidentally, the lawyer made a good match. Fenice's parents, who died three years before the start of the plot, had bequeathed their daughter lands and flocks of sheep during her lifetime.
reception
- 1965, Erler notes that Keller wrote to Heyse in 1859 and that some of his girls' characters, including Fenice, convinced him.
literature
expenditure
- The girl from Treppi pp. 33–82 in: Paul Heyse: The girl from Treppi. Italian love stories. With an afterword by Gotthard Erler . Illustrations: Wolfgang Würfel . 512 pages. Book publisher der Morgen, Berlin 1965
- L'Arrabbiata. The girl from Treppi . In the appendix: Contributions to novel theory , ed. v. Karl Pörnbacher. Reclam, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-008301-7 .
Secondary literature
- Werner Martin (Ed.): Paul Heyse. A bibliography of his works. With an introduction by Prof. Dr. Norbert Miller . 187 pages. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1978 (typewriter font), ISBN 3-487-06573-8
- Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1870–1900. From the founding of the empire to the turn of the century. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44104-1
Web links
- The text
- The girl from Treppi in the Gutenberg-DE project
- online in the Internet Archive (pp. 1–33 in Paul Heyse, Gesammelte Werke, Vol. 5: Novellen II. Wilhelm Hertz , Berlin 1888, 5th edition)
- online in the Internet Archive ( Toronto anno 1900, in German; extensively commented for the English-speaking reader)
- Entries in WorldCat