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1785 Alessandro Manzoni was born in Milan in 1785. His father, Pietro Manzoni, was a rich land owner from Lecco, and his mother, Giulia Beccaria, was daughter of the famous jurist Cesare Beccaria 1792 Donna Giulia was separated from her husband 1805 he joined his mother at Paris 1806 In morte di Carlo Imbonati 1808 he married Henriette-Louise Blondel, the daughter of a Swiss banker 1809 Urania 1810 Henriette-Louise became a Catholic at Paris, Manzoni followed her back into the Church. 1812 La Resurrezione 1813 Il Nome di Maria 1813 Il Natale 1815 La Passione 1819 Osservazioni sulla morale cattolica, a defence of Catholicism against the attacks of Sismondi 1820 Il Conte di Carmagnola 1822 La Pentecoste 1822 L`Adelchi 1822 Il Cinque Maggio, an ode on the death of Napoleon, which remains the most popular Italian lyric of the nineteenth century. 1825 I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni`s great masterpiece, was written between 1821 and 1825 1827 visit to Tuscany for the purpose of making himself better acquainted with what he regarded as the ideal form of the Italian language. 1840 I Promessi Sposi, was rewritten 1840 Storia della Colonna infame, an historical appendix to his romance 1845 Dell` Invenzione 05/22/1873 Death |
