A gift to humanity - Giuseppe Verde.
The book's real greatness lies in its delineation of character -- The Penguin Companion to European Literature.
The Great Italian Novel - The Wall Street Journal.
Manzoni's The Betrothed is indeed The Great Italian Novel.
It is the story of the love and enforced separation of a young peasant boy and girl in northern Italy, during the seventeenth century plague, in a world of foreign domination, .
Benediction Books The betrothed: (complete and unabridged), hardcover/alessandro manzoni
