The Treviso embroiderer

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Paul Heyse on a painting by Adolph Menzel from 1853

The embroiderer of Treviso is an amendment to the German Nobel Prize winner for Literature Paul Heyse , which was created in 1868 and 1869 in the March issue of the salons for literature, art and society in publishing Payne in Leipzig appeared.

The novella has been translated into Italian (La ricamatrice di Treviso, 1873), English (The Embroideress of Treviso, 1874) and Danish (Historien om den blonde Giovanna, 1875).

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The story of the blond Giovanna was found by the narrator in the Treviso Dominican monastery of San Niccolo in a chronicle from the end of the 14th century. The events described therein are said to have occurred in the first quarter of the same century. It's about the feud between the cities of Treviso and Vicenza .

In a battle on the Bacchilione , the Trevisans defeated the Vicentines under their condottiere Attilio Buonfigli, who was around 25 years old . Attilio had a deep wound on his neck from a sword blow. He survived thanks to the care in the house of Tullio Scarpa in Vicenza. The young Lorenzaccio Scarpa, the eldest son of the house and bitter enemy of the Trevisans, stayed away from his father's house while he was nursing the enemy. Lorenzaccio's parents hoped that the marriage of their only daughter, Emilia, to Attilio could be seen as a contribution to good urban neighborhood. Although Attilio was silent when his mother brought him closer to the marriage idea of ​​the friendly Scarpas at bedside, the slowly recovering man secretly did not want to marry off with the enemy.

The wedding is finally a done deal. All Attilio has to do is leave the infirmary so that he can ride into Treviso triumphantly. When the time comes, the grateful Trevisans hold him an honorary banner, which the 31-year-old blonde Giovanna has hand-embroidered with the city's heraldic animal. When she was eighteen, Giovanna's fiancé had died of the leaves . Since then, the beautiful Giovanna has wanted to remain a virgin.

When, after the move, Attilio takes over the banner from his noble uncle's hands, his gaze glides over the stands and stays with Giovanna. In the evening he visits the beautiful woman in her dwelling. The decision is now made - Attilio does not want to marry Emilia under any circumstances; he wants Giovanna. As the older, more sensible one, the embroiderer tells him about the plan. With all her sense of reality, Giovanna can't help it - the girl has to kiss the scar on the young man's neck. From then on, Attilio secretly visits Giovanna every evening; kisses "mouth and forehead and cheeks".

On the day the bride Emilia enters Treviso, everything is over. At the tournament in honor of the impending marriage, Lorenzaccio knocks down the enemy with a lance. Giovanna goes to the dying Attilio and sends Emilia away with an imperious gesture. Attilio demands a kiss from Giovanna, receives it and dies.

In a few nights, Giovanna's blond hair turns silver and she wilts into an old woman. Giovanna dies three years later and is buried at the feet of her lover. After Attilio's death, Giovanna had embroidered a second banner: Archangel Michael - armed in white - defeats the dragon. The narrator says: "... it is said that she embroidered the angel's mail shirt with her own white hair."

literature

expenditure

  • The Embroiderer from Treviso pp. 273-310 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

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
  • Rolf Füllmann: Paul Heyses 'The Embroiderer of Treviso' as a self-aesthetic (Foucault) of the early days. In: Ders .: The novella of the neo-renaissance between 'Gründerzeit' and 'Untergang' (1870-1945): reflections in the rear-view mirror. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2016. pp. 237-256, ISBN 978-3-8288-3700-3
  • »Where's the falcon?« Paul Heyses novel theory and his novel “The Embroiderer of Treviso” . In: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society 60 (2016)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin, p. 33, entry 2