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Product: THE BETROTHED
Description: This marriage is not supposed to happen.”
Lombardy, 1628, a time of oppressive Spanish occupation of Northern Italy, and of the Thirty Years’ War. The young lovers Lorenzo and Lucia, both from peasant families, are planning their wedding. However, the villainous Don Rodrigo has designs on Lucia, and the lovers are forced to flee their village. Their dangerous journey in exile takes them through one of the most dramatic epochs in Italian history, filled with war, famine and plague – will they ever be able to find happiness together?
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Product: THE BETROTHED
Description: Italy’s greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.

Published in 1827 but set two centuries earlier, against the tumultuous backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy during the Thirty Years’ War, The Betrothed is the story of two peasant lovers who want nothing more than to marry. Their region of northern Italy is under Spanish occupation, and when the vicious Spaniard Don Rodrigo blocks their union in an attempt to take Lucia for himself, the couple must struggle to persevere against his plots—which include false charges against Renzo and the kidnapping of Lucia by a robber baron called the Unnamed—while beset by the hazards of war, bread riots, and a terrifying outbreak of bubonic plague. First and foremost a love story, the novel also weaves issues of faith, justice, power, and truth into a sweeping epic in the tradition of Ivanhoe, Les Misérables, and War and Peace. Groundbreakingly populist in its day and hugely influential to succeeding generations, Alessandro Manzoni’s masterwork has long been considered one of Italy’s national treasures.
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Product: THE BETROTHED
Description: This marriage is not supposed to happen.”
Lombardy, 1628, a time of oppressive Spanish occupation of Northern Italy, and of the Thirty Years’ War. The young lovers Lorenzo and Lucia, both from peasant families, are planning their wedding. However, the villainous Don Rodrigo has designs on Lucia, and the lovers are forced to flee their village. Their dangerous journey in exile takes them through one of the most dramatic epochs in Italian history, filled with war, famine and plague – will they ever be able to find happiness together?
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Product: The Betrothed
Description: The novel is commonly described as "the most widely read work in the Italian language. It became a model for subsequent Italian literary fiction. Scholar Sergio Pacifici states that no other Italian literary work, with the exception of the Divine Comedy, "has been the object of more intense scrutiny or more intense scholarship. The novel is not only about love and power: the great questions about evil, about innocents suffering, are the underlying theme of the book. The chapters about the famine and the plague, are a powerful picture of material and moral devastation. Manzoni does not offer simple answers but leaves those questions open for the reader to meditate on.
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Product: The Betrothed (Annotated)
Description: Set in northern Italy in 1628, during the oppressive years of direct Spanish rule, it is seen as a veiled attack on the Austrian Empire, which controlled the region at the time the novel was written (the definitive version was published in 1842). It is also noted for the extraordinary description of the plague that struck Milan around 1630.It deals with a variety of themes, from the cowardly, hypocritical nature of one prelate (the parish priest don Abbondio) and the heroic sainthood of other priests (the friar Padre Cristoforo, the cardinal Federico Borromeo), to the unwavering strength of love (the relationship between Renzo and Lucia, and their struggle to finally meet again and be married), and offers some keen insights into the meanderings of the human mind.
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Product: The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
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Product: The Betrothed: The Great Plague of Milan
Description: 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 happens along that way that makes The Betrothed so engaging and instructive. The Betrothed fictionalizes in great detail the historical realities of the Thirty Years War and the Great Plague that struck Milan around 1630.
Excerpt : « They heard with a smile of incredulity and contempt any who hazarded a word on the danger, or who even mentioned the plague. The same incredulity, the same blindness, the same obstinacy, prevailed in the senate, the council of ten, and in all the judicial bodies. Cardinal Frederick alone enjoined his curates to impress upon the people the importance of declaring every case, and of sequestrating all infected or suspected goods. The Tribunal of Health, prompted by the two physicians, who fully apprehended the danger, did take some tardy measures; but in vain. A proclamation to prevent the entrance of strangers into the city was not published until the 29th of November. This was too late; the plague was already in Milan. »
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Product: The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)
Description: 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 center of the novel is the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, whose marriage is forbidden by the local baron, who wishes to wed the lovely Lucia himself. Forced to flee their homes, Renzo and Lucia are separated and must struggle against the ravages of war, famine, and the plague to be reunited again. While in essence a simple and affecting love story, “The Betrothed” is also a fascinating and detailed glimpse into a dramatic and tumultuous period in Italy’s history. Famed for its depiction of young love, devotion, and fidelity, the novel is also noted for its incredibly realistic depictions of the real-life plague that ravaged Milan, as well as the subsequent bread shortages and violent unrest. Manzoni’s “The Betrothed” is an epic Italian masterpiece.
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Product: The Betrothed (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Alessandro Manzoni (2013-09-17)
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Product: The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni
Description: This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Product: The Harvard Classics, Volume 21: I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
Description: Part of The Harvard Classics and Dr Eliot's five-foot shelf of books.
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Product: I Promessi Sposi: The Betrothed
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Product: The Betrothed (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
Brand: Everyman's Library
Color: Tan
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Product: The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)
Brand: Penguin Classics
Color: Black
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Product: The Betrothed (Illustrated): Bilingual edition (Italian Edition)
Description: • This eBook includes the first English translation and the original text of the classical novel, and is enriched with 54 illustrations, a review by Edgar Allan Poe, an Introductory Note and Critical Remarks from the printed edition.
Alessandro Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel “The Betrothed” (Italian: “I promessi sposi”), the most famous and widely read novel in the Italian language, considered among the masterpieces of world literature.
The novel is a complex presentation of individual stories tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin deeply in love with each other. Threatened and prevented from being married, Lucia and Renzo are separated, and the story follows each of them as they struggle to unite again, against a background of historical events and through the narration of many subplots.
The novel has been of great significance throughout the years, always reprinted and always studied.
Pope Francis is among the admirers of the novel that he recommended in 2015 to engaged couples as preparation for marriage. In his words, “Don't overlook this masterpiece on engagement in Italian literature, go on and read it and you will see the beauty.”
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