In seventeenth-century Lombardy, a tyrant's whim tears two peasant lovers apart amid plague, famine, and war.
Books that mention The Betrothed (7)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: “remembering a translation of I Promessi Sposi penned by Remigio López Valle ... published in Mexico in approximately 1930 ... Alessandro Manzoni?”
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante: “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 by Orhan Pamuk: epigraph: —ALESSANDRO MANZONI, The Betrothed
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “Manzoni's The Betrothed was also a best seller”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “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 by Charlotte M. Yonge: “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…”