Title: Manzoni and the aesthetics of the Lombard Seicento : art assimilated into the narrative of I promessi sposi /
Authors: Pierce, Glenn Palen.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Manzoni, Alessandro,; Manzoni, Alessandro, Aesthetics.; Italian literature History and criticism; Baroque literature History and criticism.
Abstract: This well-illustrated study proposes an interdisciplinary reading of the nineteenth-century historical novel by the Italian author Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi [The betrothed]. It is based on the premise that the author successfully identified artistic and dramatic icons typical of the seventeenth century he was recreating, that those icons were used by the author as historical documents, and that they consequently effect an aesthetic influence on his narrative.