Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) wrote I promessi sposi, or The Betrothed, Italy's most widely read novel. His works signaled the unique direction of Italian romanticism.Alessandro Manzoni was born in M...
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In the following excerpt, Tuckerman discusses Manzoni as he represents the nineteenth-century novelist, and comments on the “fidelity to nature” of his I promessi sposi.
As I stood by...
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In the following essay, Davie explores Manzoni's relationship to Italian nationalism in the nineteenth century.
When Manzoni was asked in 1848 to stand as a candidate for the Piedmontese par...
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In the following essay, Ferlito examines the mother-daughter relationship in Manzoni's I promessi sposi and the ways in which gossip both defines and undermines female relationships.
Victori...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1887, Howells provides an introduction to European Romanticism, briefly surveys Manzoni's life, and evaluates his verse dramas and poetryȁ...
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In the following excerpt, Chandler surveys Manzoni's critical writings and his Fermo e Lucia, the precursor to I promessi sposi.
The early 1820s were the period of Manzoni's intensest...
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In the following excerpt, Barricelli offers a thematic and stylistic study of Manzoni's dramas Il conte di Carmagnola and Adelchi.
“The idea of a performance of my things gives me app...
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In the following essay, Dombroski considers the ideological character of Manzoni's I promessi sposi, particularly as the novel's concerns with social class have been perceived by Marxist...
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In the following essay, Radcliff-Umstead describes Manzoni's tragedies Il conte di Carmagnola and Adelchi as dramas of Christian salvation and transcendence.
Alessandro Manzoni structured hi...
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In the following essay, Lucente asserts that Manzoni's use of language in I promessi sposi is central to an understanding of the novel's theme and structure.
Questions of language, pa...
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In the following essay, Jones discusses Manzoni's use of only dark-haired women in I promessi sposi as it departs from the canon's tradition of differentiating between virtuous blond-hai...
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In the following essay, Stone probes the pro-aristocratic element in Manzoni's otherwise republican novel I promessi sposi.
Like every title, mine too aims at arousing the reader's cu...
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Alessandro Manzoni
Critical Essay by Henry T. Tuckerman
