Alessandro Manzoni (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Alessandro Manzoni is remembered chiefly for a single work, I promessi sposi (1842; The Betrothed, 1951)—a revision of the earlier Gli sposi promessi (1827; The Betrothed, 1828)—his only novel. He was, however, a prolific writer of astonishing range and intellectual depth. Manzoni was a historian, the author of such works as the Discorso sopra alcuni punti della storia longobardica in Italia (1822), the Lettre à Alphonse de Lamartine (1848), and La storia della colonna infame (1842; The Column of...
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