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"The great plague novel." --The New Yorker

Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." The interior of this book is a facsimile reproduction... Read Full Overview

Italy's greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.

I promessi sposi un celebre romanzo storico di Alessandro Manzoni, ritenuto il pi famoso e il pi letto tra quelli scritti in lingua italiana. Preceduto dal Fermo e Lucia, spesso considerato romanzo a s , fu edito in una prima versione nel 1827 (detta edizione ventisettana);... Read Full Overview

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni and translated by The Count O'Mahony. The reception given to Manzoni's masterpiece, "I Promessi Sposi" (1825-26) was very different. In form a historical novel, written at a time when the vogue of the Waverley Novels had stimulated... Read Full Overview

Apparso attraverso diverse riedizioni tra il 1827 e il 1841, I Promessi Sposi ? il pi? famoso e pi? letto romanzo della letteratura italiana.Il racconto, ambientato nel Seicento lombardo sotto la dominazione spagnola, ? il primo esempio di romanzo storico italiano, anche se la... Read Full Overview

But Alessandro Manzoni is not only a skilful painter of individual portraits, he excels also in grand historical representations. In that of the plague at Milan, and the famine preceding it, his manner becomes bolder, his touch more free and majestic, without, however, losing... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Betrothed ("I Promessi Sposi") is one of the greatest European historical novels. As its title impies, it an epic love story in Lombardy on the late 1620s. It is no spoiler to say, and you will be relieved to know, that the two young lovers eventually marry.But it is what... Read Full Overview

PUO' UN ROMANZO CAMBIARE PER SEMPRE LA LINGUA DI UNA NAZIONE? ... vale la pena di segnalare questa edizione perch? corredata da una attenta biografia [...] e dall'interessante saggio 'Dell'Equivalenza Manzoniana' di Enrico Ferraris" (recensione da 5 stelle, Darkglobe, VINE VOICE,... Read Full Overview

Considered one of the most important and widely read novels ever written in the Italian language, "The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)" is Alessandro Manzoni's 1827 historical novel, which details the terribly oppressive rule of the Spanish over Italy in the early 1600s. At the... Read Full Overview

Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) poeta y escritor italiano, famoso por haber escrito la obra Los Novios (I Promessi Spossi en italiano) considerada una obra maestra y primer exponente de la novela italiana moderna. La historia se ubica en los a?os 1628-1630 en un pueblo cerca del... Read Full Overview

This is very much a literal translation.This novel does have a Christian theme.

"A gift to humanity" - Giuseppe Verde.

"The book's real greatness lies in its delineation of character" -- The Penguin Companion to European Literature.

"The Great Italian Novel" - The Wall Street Journal.

Manzoni's The Betrothed is indeed "The Great... Read Full Overview