It contains a section of approximately 150 pages in which the author goes off on slight tangent about a contemporaneous plague and subsequent bread riots and discusses several obscure historians, as well as the passage of a German army through the region.
It contains a section of approximately 150 pages in which the author goes off on slight tangent about a contemporaneous plague and subsequent bread riots and discusses several obscure historians, as well as the passage of a German army through the region. All of the heroic characters are associated with the church in some way, including the convert known as the Unnamed, the interesting nun of Moanza, and Fra Cristoforo. The central plot concerns a bet by Don Roderigo, who then gets in the way of the lovers Renzo and Lucia. FTP, name this novel set in 17th-century Italy, the masterpiece of Allesandro Manzoni.
It contains a section of approximately 150 pages in which the author goes off on slight tangent about a contemporaneous plague and subsequent bread riots and discusses several obscure historians, as well as the passage of a German army through the region.
The {Betrothed} or {I Promessi Sposi}