Antonio Bresciani (writer)
Antonio Bresciani was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer, mostly known for his reactionary diatribes against liberalism and the Risorgimento. The Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci used the terms "Brescianism" and "Father Bresciani's progeny" to describe literature of a conservative and populist bent.Anti-Semite
Bresciani's theories are characteristic of the "paranoid style" in politics, positing a Satanic conspiracy among secret societies and Jews to undermine the Christian order. Bresciani's highly popular novel 1850 novel L'Ebreo di Verona shaped religious anti-Semitism for decades in Italy, as did his work for La Civiltà Cattolica, which he helped launch.Selected Works
- Vita del giovane egiziano Abulcher Bisciarah, 1838
- L'Ebreo di Verona,
- Lorenzo, o il coscritto - racconto ligure
- Della Repubblica romana, 1858
- Ubaldo e Irene - racconti
- La contessa Matilde di Canossa e Isabella di Groniga
- La casa di ghiaccio o il cacciatore di Vincennes
- Olderico, ovvero Il zuavo pontificio, racconto del 1860
- Lionello o delle Società Segrete
- L'assedio di Ancona
