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Alessandro Manzoni

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Alessandro Manzoni, born Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni, was an Italian writer, poet, and dramatist; he was also a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy.

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The Betrothed

*I Promessi Sposi* is set in the seventeenth century, in the Duchy of Milan, then a Spanish possession; it is not a historical novel, even if many events actually took place; rather, it speaks to the present, bearing a distinctly conservative message: we must entrust ourselves to Divine Providence, for we are part of a grand design, incomprehensible to us. Thus Cardinal Federigo Borromeo explains

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