The world of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ is totally fictional, but there is a real life place that inspired the title of CS Lewis; Find out which one!
Did you know that “the chronicles of Narnia” have inspirations in the real world? Between 1949 and 1954, the Irish author CS Lewis He launched seven books with the title telling the story of Narnia, a place inhabited by mythological creatures and talking animals that the brothers Lucia, Edmundo, Susana and Pedro Penvensie discover after crossing a portal found in a wardrobe.
Despite being a fictional history, Italy Magazine reported in 2009 that possible evidence that a place that really exists and may have inspired the writer was found.
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It turns out that the fictional kingdom of the pages has the same name as an ancient Roman city that dates back to at least 299 BC, located in the region of Umbria, 80 kilometers north of Rome, Italy. Today, the place, mentioned in the writings of Tacitus, Livio and Plínio, the old man, is known as Narni and has less than 20 thousand inhabitants.
Rumors of a likely inspiration in this Italian commune have long circulated among the most curious fans, as the author was a university assistant in Oxford and a teacher in Cambridge, so he had to get knowledge about great classics of literature around the world and would have discovered Narnia/Narni while studying Latin authors.
The idea, however, has never been confirmed, but the allusion to the city may be true, as the former personal secretary and biographer of Lewis, Walter Hoopergranted a copy of a Latin Atlas from Italy that belonged to the author to a local writer called Giuseppe Fortunatiand this collection of maps, Lewis had underlined Narnia/Narni.
“Lewis was in love with Roman history and in Atlas he traced the armies’ routes, highlighting Flaminia (Roman road) and Narnia in particular,” Fortunati said in a statement reverberated by Italy Magazine. ” Hooper told Lewis told him that he was inspired by his chronicles. ”
At the time, Hooper said the Fortune that there was the hypothesis of Lewis have been inspired by Blessed LUCIA DE NARNIa saint of the 16th century Catholic Church, to create the youngest of the Penvensie brothers, which was also called Lucia. The idea has never been confirmed.
It is worth mentioning that when receiving the information, Fortune wrote a literary work exploring the connections between the real life nari and the narnia of Lewis entitled “The Book of Narnia and Narni”.
Despite all this, there is no evidence that Lewis Already visited Narni, being possible that the reference to the city is limited only to the title of the story that surpassed the screens and was also adapted to the big screen between 2005 and 2010 by Waden Media and Disney, whose partnership brought translations into the audiovisual format of three From the author’s books: “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, “Prince Caspian” and “The Travel of the Dawn.
Now, more than a decade and a half after the trilogy, there is another film version of “The Chronicles of Narnia” under development. This time, Netflix will be responsible for the feature film, which is directed by Greta Gerwig, Known for expert critics such as “Lady Bird: The Time to Fly”, “Lovely Women” and “Barbie”, and a launch scheduled for November 26, 2026 in theaters and December 25 on the streaming platform.
Source: Recreio
