 Nievo died before it could receive its final editing.Nievo himself did not find a publisher, and it was only in 1867, six years after the writer's death, that the novel was published under the title "Confessioni di un ottuagenario" ("Confessions of an octogenarian").The author's original title, by which the book is now generally known, was "Le Confessioni d'un italiano", but this seemed to be too "political" for the times.