Giuseppe Verdi composed his majestic Requiem Mass in honor of Manzoni. Published in its final form in 1842, The Betrothed has inspired generations of Italian readers and writers. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The Betrothed is a cornerstone of Italian culture, language, and literature. With registration questions, contact the Events Office.“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”-The Wall Street Journal “An exemplary historical novel” (The New Yorker) from the father of modern Italian literature, The Betrothed receives its first new English-language translation in fifty years, hailed as “a landmark literary occasion” by Jhumpa Lahiri. Please click the Save Registration button only once - the website may take a moment to update and show your confirmation page. To register, log in and fill in the form below. Interested but not yet ready to register? Get a reminder closer to the first date, space permitting. In two sessions, we will appreciate this newly accessible masterpiece of modern literature.įor the first meeting, please read up to the end of chapter 23 (to page 384) in the Modern Library edition. Unfolding Manzoni’s inspiring story of young love facing the challenges of clerical and temporal power as well as of the plague, Moore’s translation also, as Jhumpa Lahiri points out in her Preface, marks an ‘amazing transformation’ of the Italian language itself from an amalgam of regional dialects to a modern mode of literary expression. Moore’s new version published by Modern Library, though, brings us the novel in all its many-sided splendor. Long considered the most famous Italian novel, a classic of the 19th century, and a crystallization of Italian nationalism, Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) until now has never been compellingly rendered into English.
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