Excerpt from I Promessi Sposi: Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII, Scoperta e Rifatta Come non ripensare al Parini, e ai colli beati placidi che cingono il vago Eupili, un po' pm l , verso occidente, dietro i Corni di Canzo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

I Promessi Sposi: Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII, Scoperta e Rifatta (Classic Reprint)

Alessandro Manzoni

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Excerpt from Sulla Lingua Italiana: Scritti VariMa che temerario le parrò io se nell' atto di protestarmi suo discepolo come fo di core e in coscienza, oso a questi ringraziamenti aggiungere un'osservazione? E un'osservazirme non richiesta? E che essendo legata con le nostre eterne que stioni sulla lingua non potrà nemmeno avere il merito della brevità, o piuttosto dovra essere in discreta anche per la lungaggine? La mia scusa è nel dovere stesso che ho di ringraziarla. Non mi pare che adempirei convenientemente questo dovere se le esprimessi la mia riconoscenza in termini generali e insignificanti; se dicendole che riguardo il suo lavoro come un gran benefizio, in parte promesso in parte già. Fatto alla nostra Italia, non le rendessi qualche ragione di questo sentimento. Ma non potrei far ciò senza aceon nare insieme il perchè mi pare che il benefizio poteva, e per mezzo di semplici omissioni, essere ancora maggiore. E quindi ciò che mi rende ar dito a sottometterle con rispettosa libertà. Questa mia osservazione, e lo sperare che quand' anche non le paresse punto fondata vorrà... pure acco glierla come parte d'un sincerissimo omaggio.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Sulla Lingua Italiana: Scritti Vari (Classic Reprint)

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I Promessi Sposi, Vol. 21: The Betrothed (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from I Promessi Sposi Storia Milanese del Sec. XVII, Vol. 2Quel nome santo e soave, gib ripetuto con venerazione nei primi anni, e poi non più iove cato per tanto tempo, né forse udito proferire, faceva nella mente della sciagurata cheallor l'u diva, una specie confusa, strana, lenta; come il ricordo della luce e delle forme, in un vecchio ne accecato dall'infanzia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

I Promessi Sposi Storia Milanese del Sec. XVII, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

The Bethrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Bethrothed Lovers: I Promessi SposiThe past of Italy had been looked on as the past of Greece and Rome. Augustus and Virgil together had adopted Greece - or rather, appropriated her - when they modelled the zeneid on Homer, who was Greece, and gave it to the world as the expression of Rome's genius and her past. Dante and Italy had adopted Virgil, and, with Virgil, Aristotle, and even Seneca, as masters of literary form. To throw aside the uni ties, to vitalize the mediaeval lay figures which the writers had hitherto varnished with a classical glue, musty and clogged, was to be both bold and bad. But to go back only two hun dred years (the story of The Betrothed begins in 1628) and to describe life in all its petty details,to mix episodes of peasant life with realistic pictures of the plague, to paint a parish priest as neither a saint nor a fiend, to represent religion as a con servative force, and at the same time to admit that a priest might be more or less than the average man; to be heroic and commonplace in one and the same chapter - was, in 1825, to shock those Italian Arcadians who sat in the midst of Greek theatrical scenery carefully retouched in accordance with the more modern Latin taste. The connection between the romanticism of The Be trothed and Scott's Heart of Midlothian and realism is very close. Romanticism is, in one sense, a revolt; in th1s sense The Betrothed is romantic, though, compared with Reade's Cloister and the Hearth or Dumas's Three Mus keteers, it is extremely quiet in its ﬂow of incidents.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

But there is another point of view under which we must consider novels, or rather the works so called, but which bear, to those which morals and good taste reprobate, no other resemblance than the name. These are, it is true, unhappily few in number, and therefore have not been classed by themselves, but have been comprehended in the common appellation, and included in the general proscription; like an honest man, who, bearing the same name as a rogue, partakes with him the odium of his reputation. But this is an injustice for which we are disposed to claim reparation. Every work of imagination, in which the author causes ideal personages to speak, think, and act, according to his pleasure, has been stigmatised as a Novel. But, if we allow this rigorous definition, the apologue, so dear to the moralist, is a Novel, and deserving of proscription.

The Betrothed

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The Betrothed: The Waverley Women Series, book 14 (Waverley Women Series, 14)

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I Promessi Sposi: Storia Milanese del Secolo XVII, Scoperta e Rifatta (Classic Reprint)

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I Promessi Sposi, Vol. 21: The Betrothed (Classic Reprint)

I Promessi Sposi Storia Milanese del Sec. XVII, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

The Bethrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Classic Reprint)

The Bethrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Classic Reprint)

The Betrothed

The Betrothed

I Promessi Sposi

The Betrothed: The Waverley Women Series, book 14 (Waverley Women Series, 14)