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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

Edizione integrale per i 150 anni dalla morte del grande scrittore milanese. Il volume riporta tutti i RIASSUNTI PER CAPITOLO (Utilissimi-a partire da pag. 266). Formato adatto sia alle scuole superiori, sia medie, e adatto alla lettura di piacere. I promessi sposi è il celeberrimo... 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

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

CON SCHEDA ANALITICA DELL'OPERA ALL'INTERNO "Versione integrale originale con riassunti per capitolo e commenti scolastici." I promessi sposi ? il celeberrimo romanzo storico di Alessandro Manzoni, ritenuto il pi? famoso e il pi? letto tra quelli scritti in lingua italiana[1]... 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

"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

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

The Betrothed (Italian: I promessi sposi) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language. Set in northern Italy in 1628, during the oppressive years... Read Full Overview