<b>“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br> <br><b>“An exemplary historical novel” (<i>The New Yorker</i>) from the father of modern Italian literature, <i>The Betrothed</i> receives its first new English-language translation in fifty years, hailed as “a landmark literary occasion” by Jhumpa Lahiri.</b><br><br><b>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br><i>The Betrothed</i> is a cornerstone of Italian culture, language, and literature. Published in its final form in 1842, <i>The Betrothed</i> has inspired generations of Italian readers and writers. Giuseppe Verdi composed his majestic Requiem Mass in honor of Manzoni. Italo Calvino called the novel “a classic that has never ceased shaping reality in It
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A historical novel set in Lombardy during the wars, famine and plague of the period 1628-30. Two star-crossed lovers are tested by the political injustices of their situation, the virulence of the plague, and a life in exile, away from their homeland....
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