Un caso (misconosciuto) di letteratura testimoniale: Nicola Palermo

Abstract

In this contribution a semi-unknown text of the prison prose of southern Italy is rediscovered, which is also an exemplary result of testimonial literature and denunciation of Bourbon tyranny. For almost a decade the Calabrian patriot Nicola Palermo was imprisoned, in inhuman conditions, in the prisons of Montefusco and Montesarchio; and gave life to a memoir of shocking intensity for narrative and descriptive force, which is also one of the primary sources of Anna Banti’s Noi credevamo.