"Il tormentato esaminator di se stesso". Dinamiche della conversione nei "Promessi sposi".

[Autom. eng. transl.] In the "Fermo and Lucia", to tell the conversion of the Count of the Sagrato, Manzoni adheres to the Pauline model of sudden lightening, thus giving a miraculous interpretation of the event, which assigns to the redeemed sinner a totally passive role. In the revision of the "Promessi sposi", instead, the whole story is rewritten starting from the Augustinian model of the "Confessions", which represents conversion as a slow and gradual process of crisis, made of anxiety, inner conflicts, demolitions and of resistance, in which God solicits, favors by sending propitious occasions, dispenses torments and offers the necessary help, respecting however the times, the nature and the freedom of man. The essay reconstructs, point by point, all the phases of the conversion of the unnamed one, from his first insurrection up to the dissolution, highlighting the psychological implications no less than moral of the process, not without repeated references to the other converts of the novel, beginning from father Cristoforo, and to the Napoleone of the "Cinque Maggio".