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La storia nota di un curato di campagna pauroso e vile che, minacciato dai bravi, si rifiuta di sposare due giovani, è il capolavoro della letteratura italiana dell'Ottocento. Manzoni trova la forma e la lingua perfette solo alla terza edizione, a cui aggiunge Storia della colonna infame: ideale conclusione del romanzo, racconta il processo contro due presunti untori, ulteriore esempio di oppressione dei potenti nei confronti degli u...

Alessandro Manzoni was a giant of nineteenth-century European literature whose I promessi sposi ("The Betrothed, " 1928) is ranked with War and Peace as marking the summit of the historical novel. Manzoni wrote "Del romanzo storico" ("On the Historical Novel") during the twenty years he spent revising I promessi sposi. This first English translation of "On the Historical Novel" reflects the insights of a great craftsman and the misgivings of a...

Translator Federica Brunori Deigan presents lyrical English-language versions of these two tragedies which, taken together, dramatize the first two epochs in Manzoni's "history of Italy.

Excerpt from The Betrothed, Vol. 2 If a weed be discovered in a badly cultivated field, a fine root of sorrel, for example, and the spectator wish to ascertain with certainty whether it has sprung up from seed, either opened in the field itself, or wafted thither by the wind, or dropped there by a bird in its flight, let him think as he will about it, he will never come to a satisfactory conclusion. For the same reason we are unable to decide...

Excerpt from The Bethrothed Lovers: I Promessi Sposi The past of Italy had been looked on as the past of Greece and Rome. Augustus and Virgil together had adopted Greece - or rather, appropriated her - when they modelled the zeneid on Homer, who was Greece, and gave it to the world as the expression of Rome's genius and her past. Dante and Italy had adopted Virgil, and, with Virgil, Aristotle, and even Seneca, as masters of literary form. To ...

Excerpt from Opere di Alessandro Manzoni, Vol. 2Discussione sull'amore ne' romanzi. Lucia e Agnese a Monza Presentazione al monastero Storia della Signora Suo collo quio con Lucia. Fermo perseguitato dal Podestà di Lecco istigazione di Don Rodrigo Visita di Don Rodrigo al Conte del Sagrato Egidio e la Signora Ravvedimento e fine di costei Ratto di Lucia Conversione del Conte del Sagrato Perchè non duri viva e grande la fama let tetaria di Fede...

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Età di lettura: da 10 anni.

Excerpt from I Promessi Sposi, or the Betrothed Lovers: A Milanese Story of the Seventeenth Century But it is not u on individual character our author exhausts is power, he has the talent as well as the ambition of a Michael Angelo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books us...

Eine historische Romanze aus der Zeit der Kreuzfahrer. Eveline, 16-jährige Tochter von Sir Raymond Berenger, wird von den Truppen Damian Lacys aus wallisischer Belagerung befreit. Sie wird mit seinem Onkel Hugo, der danach zum Kreuzzug aufbricht, verlobt. Dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse als König Henry II. annimmt, dass Eveline eine Verschwörung gegen ihn plant ......

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