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    The Betrothed

    1989 · Historical drama

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  1. The Betrothed (Italian: I promessi sposi Italian: [i proˈmessi ˈspɔːzi]) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes, and significantly revised and rewritten until the definitive version published between 1840 and 1842. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel in the ...

    • Alessandro Manzoni
    • 1827
  2. Sep 13, 2022 · In the fall of 1628, two young lovers are forced to flee their village on the shores of Lake Como after a powerful lord prevents their marriage, plunging them into the maelstrom of history. Manzoni draws on actual people and events to create an unforgettable fresco of Italian life and society.

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  3. Oct 10, 2022 · Italy’s Great Historical Novel. Henry James decried the nineteenth century’s “loose baggy monsters,” but a new translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s “The Betrothed” demonstrates the genre’s...

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  4. The Betrothed is an interesting historical fiction set in 1628-30 in Lombardy during the Spanish rule. The novel addresses the political climate, the execution of justice, the general life of the people, the domination and manipulation of common people by the nobles, and the calamities of the times including the famine and the Great Plague of ...

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  5. May 5, 2020 · The instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the bestselling author of the Selection series! Kiera Cass is back with a glittering royal romance sure to captivate her legion of loyal readers and lovers of courtly intrigue alike. A would-be queen. A handsome young king.

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  7. The Betrothed. Alessandro Manzoni. Penguin Publishing Group, 1972 - Fiction - 720 pages. “The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker. Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late...

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