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    The Manzoni Family

    By Natalia Ginzburg

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    rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war.

    Set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, The Manzoni Family tells a rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war. It pivots on the figure of Alessandro Manzoni, celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the masterpiece of nineteenth-century Italian literature, I promessi sposi (The Betrothed). But the tale begins with the matriarchal figure of Giulia, the mother whom the young poet found in Paris after she had abandoned him as an infant.

    There is Enrichetta, the woman he and his mother chose to be his wife, and the many children she had by him until her death; literary friends from the beau monde in Italy and Paris; and Alessandro's second wife, Teresa, and her children. Against the background of Napoleonic occupation, the reestablishment of Austrian hegemony, and the stirrings of the revolutionary urge for unification and independence, Ginzburg gracefully weaves the story of a dynasty, the Manzoni family, that seems to grow autonomously around the life of the writer and to incorporate all the epic tumult and emotion of the age.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcade
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781628728132
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    Natalia Ginzburg

    Natalia Ginzburg (Palermo, 1916 − Roma, 1991) es una de las voces más singulares de la literatura italiana del siglo XX. Publicó en 1934 su primera narración, a la que siguieron obras teatrales, ensayos y novelas y colecciones de relatos así como la biografía de Antón Chéjov. Se casó con Leone Ginzburg, de quien tomó el apellido, militante antifascista y director de la Editorial Einaudi. Fueron perseguidos por sus convicciones políticas y desterrados a un pequeño pueblo de los Abruzos de donde escaparon con destino a Roma en 1943. Fue diputada durante dos legislaturas por el Partido Comunista Italiano.

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