Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni (1780-1875) was an Italian poet and novelist, born at Milan. He began a sceptic, but became a devout Catholic. He wrote a volume of hymns, entitled "Inni Sacri," and a tragedy, "Adelchi," his masterpiece, and admired by Goethe, as also a prose fiction, "I Promessi Sposi," which spread his name over Europe. In 1860, he was made a senator of the kingdom of Italy, and was visited by Garibaldi in 1862. He was no less distinguished as a man than as an author.

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