Literary works in the form of print or film often deploy different methods to convince the reader or viewer that their perspective or ideology, is the most right or most morally sound. This can be discerned in Alessandro Blasetti’s fascist film, 1860 and in Alessandro Manzoni’s Column of Infamy. In both works, Blasetti and Manzoni take a historical event and mold their own agenda or ideological perspective around the events that occurred. In the case of Blasetti this was in line with the morals and ideologies of Mussolini’s fascist Italy of the 1930s. With regards to Manzoni, his perspective on the witch trials of 1630, known as the Column of Infamy is based on the moral zeitgeist of mid 19th century Italy. The time in which he was writing.
