Product Description: Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president...read more

Product Description: Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president...read more

This is in form an historical novel. It is rather psychological and sentimental. The scene is laid in Lombardy between 1628-1631, and the plot deals with the thwarting of the love of two peasants by a local tyrant. The manners of the time are presented with great vividness and picturesqueness. The novel has taken a place as the most distinguished novel of modern Italy.

Product Description: Considered one of the most important 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...read more

Product Description: Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (1785-1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. His novel "The Betrothed" (in Italian, "I Promessi Sposi") raised him to the first rank of literary fame. It is generally agreed to be his greatest work.

Product Description: The great Italian patriot Alejandro Manzoni wrote what is considered as one of the big novels in his language, to show, mentioning his own words: ""tragedies of horrors and scenes of evilness, with intervals of virtuous exploits""...read more

Product Description: A leading figure in Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento, Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) is best known for The Betrothed, a historical novel set in northern Italy in the early seventeenth century. Although the success of this monumental novel eclipsed his reputation as a playwright, Manzoni himself prominently placed his two verse tragedies, The Count of Carmagnola (1820) and Adelchis (1822), at the beginning of a volume of his complete works, emphasizing their personal significance in his oeuvre...read more

Product Description: This is in form an historical novel. It is rather psychological and sentimental. The scene is laid in Lombardy between 1628-1631, and the plot deals with the thwarting of the love of two peasants by a local tyrant. The manners of the time are presented with great vividness and picturesqueness...read more

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Set in Lombardy in the years 1628-30, The Betrothed tells the dramatic tale of two young lovers in a time of war, famine, and plague. Following them through exile and suffering, it displays great richness of characterization and a profound insight into the workings of history and the politics of the time. First published in 1827 as I promessi sposi, The Betrothed is the first modern Italian novel. Alessandro Manzoni was born in Milan to a noble family in 1785; although he was also a poet, he remains best known for The Betrothed. He died in 1873. David Forgacs is a Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University; he is the author of Rethinking Italian Fascism and A Gramsci Reader. Matthew Reynolds is a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Product Description: This modern translation of Italy?s greatest novel tells the story of how a young couple?s love, devotion and compassion triumph over despotic power, war, famine and pestilence. Much of the cultural heritage of Italy is derived from this captivating book.

Product Description: This modern translation of Italy?s greatest novel tells the story of how a young couple?s love, devotion and compassion triumph over despotic power, war, famine and pestilence. Much of the cultural heritage of Italy is derived from this captivating book.

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)