The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni with Bruce Penman (Translator)

832 pages first pub 1840 (editions) user-added

fiction classics historical romance reflective slow-paced
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“The great plague novel.” —The New YorkerSet in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Luci...

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