Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher.
16 Facts About Alessandro Manzoni
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Alessandro Manzoni was an influential proponent of Liberal Catholicism in Italy.
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The young Alessandro Manzoni spent his first two years in cascina Costa in Galbiate and he was wet-nursed by Caterina Panzeri, as attested by a memorial tablet affixed in the place.
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Alessandro Manzoni was a slow developer, and at the various colleges he attended he was considered a dunce.
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Alessandro Manzoni was even supposed to marry the daughter of Antoine Destutt de Tracy.
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In 1808, Alessandro Manzoni married Henriette Blondel, daughter of a Genevese banker.
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Alessandro Manzoni came from a Calvinist family, but in 1810 she became a Roman Catholic.
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Alessandro Manzoni's marriage proved a happy one, and he led for many years a retired domestic life, divided between literature and the picturesque husbandry of Lombardy.
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In 1819, Alessandro Manzoni published his first tragedy, Il Conte di Carmagnola, which, boldly violating all classical conventions, excited a lively controversy.
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In 1822, Alessandro Manzoni published his second tragedy, Adelchi, turning on the overthrow by Charlemagne of the Lombard domination in Italy, and containing many veiled allusions to the existing Austrian rule.
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Alessandro Manzoni wrote a small treatise on the Italian language.
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Alessandro Manzoni favored the Italian unification and was even a member of the Italian Senate.
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Alessandro Manzoni was well acquainted with authors such as Jean-Baptiste Say and Adam Smith and left numerous notes on the economic treatises and essays he was reading.
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Alessandro Manzoni's funeral was celebrated in the Milan Cathedral with almost royal pomp.
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Alessandro Manzoni's remains, after they lay in state for some days, were followed to the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan by a vast cortege, including the royal princes and all the great officers of state, but his noblest monument was Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, written to honour his memory.
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Alessandro Manzoni has never maintained that outside her fold and apart from her teaching, man cannot arrive at any moral truth; she has on the contrary more than once condemned this opinion because it has appeared under more forms than one.