Alessandro Manzoni
Italian poet and novelist
1785 CE to 1873 CE
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) is an Italian poet and novelist.
He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig.
Italian: I Promessi Sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.
The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message and because it is a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language.
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Alessandro Manzoni’s 1827 historical semi-romance, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) is the Italian romanticist's paean to Christian idealism.
English speakers welcome this year’s translation of the first modern Italian novel, Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi, as The Betrothed.
Inspired by Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and first published in 1827 in three volumes t is possibly the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language.