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Book · 1827 · Fiction

The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni
Random House Publishing Group (Penguin Random House) · 736 pages
★ 7.2 editorial score

In seventeenth-century Lombardy two peasants want to marry, and a lord who wants the bride frightens their priest into refusing. Riot, famine, and plague come between them. Italian prose was remade on it.

Genre
Historical fiction
Medium
Novel
Subject
LoveBetrayalThe ChurchSocial injustice
Setting
Milan, Italy
Time
1827Depicts 1620s

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