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  1. The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. [1] Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, Lampedusa, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the ...

    • Stendhal
    • 1839
  2. The impulsive young Fabrizio del Dongo, longing for a life of adventure outside his wealthy Italian family’s palatial home, is caught up in the romance surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte’s ...

  3. Dec 23, 2009 · Stendhal’s Parma is a principality ruled by a petty tyrant (Ranuce-Erneste IV), and his clever, resourceful prime minister, Count Mosca, who is the lover of Fabrice’s aunt Gina, the lovely ...

  4. The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829 (?). Fabrice's early years are spent in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both in modern-day Italy).

  5. Jun 14, 2016 · The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice spends his early years in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the rest of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both locations are in modern-day Italy).

  6. Northern Italy in 1815. The Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (Italian: Ducato di Parma e Piacenza, Latin: Ducatus Parmae et Placentiae) was an Italian state created in 1545 and located in northern Italy, in the current region of Emilia-Romagna. [1] Originally a realm of the Farnese family after Pope Paul III made it a hereditary duchy for his son ...

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  8. The Charterhouse of Parma: Directed by Christian-Jaque. With Renée Faure, Lucien Coëdel, Louis Salou, María Casares. Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around.