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Why do some classics continue to fascinate while others gather dust?<\/em><\/p>\n

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An illustration by Attilio Mussino from a 1911 edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Even in our era of blurb inflation, it\u2019s hard to top Giuseppe Verdi\u2019s claim that Alessandro Manzoni\u2019s novel The Betrothed<\/em> (1827) was \u201ca gift to humanity.\u201d Verdi was hardly alone in praising the author, who ranks second only to Dante in Italian literary history. Manzoni\u2019s contemporaries Goethe and Stendhal celebrated his genius, while the critic Georg Luk\u00e1cs said that The Betrothed<\/em> was a universal portrait of Italy so complete that it exhausted the genre of the historical novel. In Italy, such is the ubiquity of Manzoni\u2019s novel that Umberto Eco claimed \u201calmost all Italians hate it because they were forced to read it in school.\u201d Manzoni was named senator in 1860 by the Italian government; in his greatest honor, Verdi dedicated his Requiem <\/em>to him on the one-year anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n

So why do few outside of Italy care about Manzoni\u2014or, even more tellingly, why do they care much more about other books, written around the same time as The Betrothed<\/em> and devoted to themes similar to its own? By comparison, one of the best-selling Italian books of all time is Carlo Collodi\u2019s The Adventures of <\/em>Pinocchio <\/em>(1881), the story of a mischievous puppet who dreams of becoming a boy. The scholar Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg has shown that Pinocchio, in his struggle to assert his individuality against the controlling wishes of the outside world, represented the archetypal Italian child in the newly formed nation: the book first appeared twenty years after unification. Similarly, Manzoni\u2019s Betrothed<\/em> gives us two typical Italian peasants, Renzo and Lucia, who struggle to marry and build a life together amid class inequality, foreign occupation, and church domination.<\/p>\n

But here the similarities end: Manzoni\u2019s novel promotes a Christian faith whose adherents are rewarded for submitting to God\u2019s providential wisdom. Collodi\u2019s story, beyond exploring the plight of Italians in their newborn nation, describes how children learn to make their way in an adult society, with all its strictures and codes of behavior. Manzoni\u2019s legacy in Italy is so strong that his book will always be read there. But outside of Italy, those same readers curious about Collodi\u2019s star-crossed puppet are likely never to give Manzoni\u2019s thoroughly Christian universe a second thought. <\/p>\n

This contrast, between a celebrated and largely unread classic and an enduringly popular classic, shows that a key to a work\u2019s ongoing celebrity is that dangerous term: universality<\/em>. We hold the word with suspicion because it tends to elevate one group at the expense of another; what\u2019s supposedly applicable to all is often only applicable to a certain group that presumes to speak for everybody else. And yet certain elements and experiences do play a major role in most of our lives: falling in love, chasing a dream, and, yes, transitioning as Pinocchio does from childhood to adolescence. The classic that keeps on being read is the book whose situations and themes remain relevant over time\u2014that miracle of interpretive openness that makes us feel as though certain stories, poems, and plays are written with us in mind.<\/p>\n

In his Defence of Poetry<\/em>, Percy Bysshe Shelley writes that great literature is \u201ca fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight; and after one person and one age has exhausted all its divine effluence \u2026 another and yet another succeeds, and new relations are ever developed.\u201d Shelley understood that some works have the magical capacity to resist closure\u2014they read us as much as we read them, by revealing what is most important to our lives individually and our age collectively. Each great book, Shelley writes, is \u201cthe first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially\u201d: the meaning we derive from literature changes over time, though the words on the page remain the same.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we even look for meaning that isn\u2019t really there\u2014at least not in the way that the author intended it. In 1756, Voltaire proclaimed \u201cnobody reads Dante anymore,\u201d and indeed the Enlightenment had little time for Dante\u2019s religious allegories and Christian doctrine. He was about to go the way of Manzoni\u2019s Betrothed<\/em>: a classic that was once much admired but now rarely read. Then the Romantics came along and rediscovered Dante, celebrating his individuality and heroism\u2014those same qualities from Inferno<\/em> that Dante would reject in Paradiso<\/em>. But that didn\u2019t matter to the Romantics. They creatively misread Dante, and in so doing made him the literary touchstone he is\u00a0today. Our interest in Dante\u2019s hell, the universality of its concern with questions of justice and crime and punishment, overrides our indifference to his medieval vision of Christianity.<\/p>\n

Manzoni famously announced that The Betrothed<\/em> would reach only \u201ctwenty-five readers,\u201d yet his book became a national treasure. Its inability to attract a non-Italian audience isn\u2019t the result of its artistic shortcomings, but of the nature of its questions and themes, which simply don\u2019t appeal to a contemporary audience. No literary work can predict the future, but some do a better job than others in carving out a space for readers of all types and from all epochs. Where Manzoni failed, others, like Collodi, succeed. Manzoni\u2019s novel exudes a Christian faith at odds with an increasingly secularized world; Collodi\u2019s focuses on the eternal plight of children in the land of grown-ups.<\/p>\n

W.\u2009E.\u2009B. Du Bois defended the necessity of a liberal arts education for recently emancipated African Americans by saying, \u201cI sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.\u201d Separated from Shakespeare\u2019s Elizabethan England by centuries, he still found in the plays a universal space where he could explore his common humanity with Hamlet<\/em>, Macbeth<\/em>, and Othello<\/em>. The greatest defense of the classics, he understood, was to keep reading them\u2014and to let them keep reading us.<\/p>\n

Joseph Luzzi teaches at Bard and is the author of the new memoir <\/em>My Two Italies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do some classics continue to fascinate while others gather dust? Even in our era of blurb inflation, it\u2019s hard to top Giuseppe Verdi\u2019s claim that Alessandro Manzoni\u2019s novel The Betrothed (1827) was \u201ca gift to humanity.\u201d Verdi was hardly alone in praising the author, who ranks second only to Dante in Italian literary history. 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