Maddalena De Leo send us news of the recent publication in Italian of her translation of The Secret. She also mentions how happy she is to know that the Red House has been saved. She made a point of visiting it in 2009, and was one of those who emailed her opinion during the campaign to keep it from enforced closure.
News release:
The juvenile work The Secret by Charlotte Brontë has
been published in Italian for the first time on 2nd March. The
translator and editor of the little book published by Albus is Prof. Maddalena De
Leo who already translated and edited Brontë’s Henry Hastings in 2009 also for
Albusedizioni and other Juvenilia as Mina Laury and Stancliffe Hotel etc. (Ripostes).
The Secret focuses on Charlotte’s heroine, Marian Hume,
the child bride of the dark, brooding and temperamental Marquis of Douro (also
known as Arthur Wellesley II and the Duke of Zamorna, the oldest son of
Charlotte’s hero, the fictionalized Duke of Wellington). The story is narrated
by the Marquis’ younger brother, Charles Wellesley.
The manuscript of The Secret was first documented by
Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte’s biographer, who probably saw it just after her
death. The first page of The Secret was reproduced in Gaskell’s Life of
Charlotte Brontë, which was published in 1857. The manuscript was also
included in Shorter’s The Brontës: Life and Letters, which was
published in 1908.
No information is available on the
manuscript’s whereabouts between 1915 and 1973, and it was presumed lost.
However, the manuscript was rediscovered among the personal papers of Evelyn
Wadsworth Symington, wife of United States Senator Stuart Symington, after her
death in 1973.
The Italian book can boast a
colourful cover and an exhaustive introduction by the editor herself.
Charlotte Brontë, Il segreto, translated into
Italian and edited by Maddalena De Leo, Albusedizioni, 2012, pp. 78, euros 7,5
The book is available on
Albusedizioni site
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