Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed began writing the
April 24, 1821, while he is with his family in the beautiful villa Brusuglio, set in the countryside, not far from Milan. Times are tough: the Austrian police in the city is shutting down, a one, the Patriots affiliated to the Carbonari secret society. The year before he was arrested and now Peter Maroncelli are ongoing processes in which employees are also involved in the Conciliator, including the editor of the newspaper, Pellico (1789-1854).
Many of them are friends and acquaintances who hopes Manzoni, in his refuge, not to be involved or required to undergo lengthy interrogations.
has with him some books: Stories of Giuseppe Ripamonti Milan (1573-1643) and the rate of Melchiorre Gioia (1767-1829) on trade in edible and high price of food, where he reads the passage of a proclamation (law enacted by Governor of Milan, so called because it was shouted in the streets by public officials in order to inform the public, often illiterate) of the seventeenth century, which imposes severe penalties for those who would prevent the celebration of a marriage. Within forty days
Manzoni extends the introduction of jet and the first two chapters of the novel, in reality, is identified in the mind for some years and represents a real challenge, for its formal novelty and content. Reconstruct the process of designing, drafting and revision of this masterpiece also means opening a section on the cultural life of the nineteenth and dive in the fascinating phase of Italian culture that follows and supports the early stages of the process of national unification.
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