Alessandro Manzoni

2 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 8 times in other books.

Books by Alessandro Manzoni

The Savage Detectives on The Betrothed: “remembering a translation of I Promessi Sposi penned by Remigio López Valle ... published in Mexico in approximately 1930 ... Alessandro Manzoni?”
My Brilliant Friend on The Betrothed: “when I tried to talk to him about The Betrothed, or the marvelous books I still borrowed from Maestro Ferraro's library...”
Nights of Plague on The Betrothed: epigraph: —ALESSANDRO MANZONI, The Betrothed
On Literature on The Betrothed: “Manzoni's The Betrothed was also a best seller”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist on The Betrothed: “as in The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni”
The Uses of Literature on The Betrothed: “Calvino devotes a full essay ("Manzoni's The Betrothed: The Novel of Ratios of Power") to analyzing the novel's characters and power structures”
The Heir of Redclyffe on The Betrothed: “The day was chiefly spent in an excursion on the lake, landing at the most beautiful spots, walking a little way and admiring, or while in the boat, smoothly moving over the deep blue waters, gaining lovely views of the banks, and talking over the book with which their acquaintance had begun, "I Promessi Sposi". Never did tourists spend…”
The Magic Mountain on Sacred Hymns: “heard that old enemy of the Church taunting and inveighing against the Christian sensitivities of the Romantics. Against Manzoni's Sacred Hymns.”