07 March 2025
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was born in Milan 240 years ago, on 7 March 1785. A towering figure in Italian literature, Manzoni was one of the greatest ...
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Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was born in Milan 240 years ago, on 7 March 1785. A towering figure in Italian literature, Manzoni was one of the greatest innovators of the nineteenth-century novel, theatre, and poetry. His masterpiece, The Betrothed, was the first historical novel in Italian and is considered the cornerstone of Italy’s linguistic unity. By choosing to write in a language based on the Florentine dialect, he played a decisive role in shaping modern Italian.