The Betrothed

Original title: I promessi sposi (Italiano)

Alessandro Manzoni

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Renzo and Lucia want to marry and a local lord decides they will not. Between plague and war, Manzoni wrote the novel that founded literary Italy.

Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) gave Italy its founding novel and, with it, a common literary language.

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