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From the age offive he was packed off to boarding-school, where his mother never visited him. When he was seven, she left his father and went to live in Paris with a wealthy Milanese liberal. As a young man Manzoni subscribed to the ideals ofthe French Revolution, and in 1801 he wore a poem which contained harsh anti-Christian views. He joined his mother in Paris in 1805, and in 1808 married Henriette Blondel, a Swiss Protestant girl. The marriage was a very happy one, except for a few tensions over religion which were resolved when they both became practising Catholics. Manzoni took his family to Milan in 1810. The next few years saw the publication of a series of odes, largely on religious subjects. Manzoni also studied Italian history, and wrote several historical plays in verse during the years following 1818. He began work on IPromessi Sposi (The Betrothed) in 1821, and published it in 1827; it was an instant success, and ran to nine editions in four years. Manzoni rewrote the book completely for a definitive, Tuscanized edition, which appeared in 1840 and virtually marked the end of his creative life. He lived another thirty-three years, but they were not particularly happy ones. He had long suffered from a nervous disorder, which now grew worse. Henriette had died in 1833, his second wife also died many years before him, and only two of his nine children survived him. When he died in 1873 he was given a state funeral, and Verdi wrote his famous Requiem for the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death.  \nBruce Penman was a versatile linguist who had a good reading knowledge often languages, four of which he spoke fluently. His translation of The Betrothed was awarded a special prize by the Italian Institute of Culture in 1973. He edited Five Italian Renaissance Comedies for Penguin Classics in 1978, and himself translated two of the five plays it contains. In 1984, his translation of China by Gildo Fossati won the John Florio Prize for the best translation from the Italian of the year. His other published translations, from Italian, French and Spanish, include works in the fields of travel,  \nancient history and oriental art. He was married, with one son and one daughter.  \nBruce Penman died in 1986.  \nIntroduction  \nAlessandro Manzoni’s mother was the beautiful and brilliant daughter of Cesare Beccaria, a distinguished writer on penal reform who enjoyed considerable fame not only in his native Lombardy, but also in liberal literary circles in pre-revolutionary Paris. By the time Giulia Beccaria was nineteen she had formed a friendship with Giovanni Verri, a member of another prominent Milanese liberal family, which was compromising for both of them; for Verri was a Knight of Malta and consequently stood to lose both his position and his income if he married. His family, rather than hers, took the initiative in regularizing the situation by marrying her off in 1782 at the age of twenty to someone else. This was Don Pietro Manzoni, a solemn, religious, conservative widower of forty-seven, with estates in the beautiful country near Lake Como which was to be described so well in IPromessi Sposi (The Betrothed) . On 7 March 1785 the author was born, and put ","cbCairrvIrd0aSXY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairrvIrd0aSXY","pdf",3865130,781,"English","# Introduction\n## Foreword\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Chapter 34\n## Chapter 35\n## Chapter 36\n## Chapter 37\n## Chapter 38\n## Map\n## Geographical Notes\n## Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of The Betrothed discussed in the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction centers on Alessandro Manzoni and provides details about his life, influences, and creative career leading to The Betrothed.\"},{\"question\":\"What political and religious influences shaped Manzoni before he worked on The Betrothed?\",\"answer\":\"The text describes how Manzoni was influenced by the French Revolution and Napoleon, while also highlighting a strongly ecclesiastical education and later resolution around religious belief.\"},{\"question\":\"What role did Bruce Penman play in this edition of The Betrothed?\",\"answer\":\"Bruce Penman translated The Betrothed and wrote the introduction, with the text noting awards and his broader translation work and linguistic abilities.\"}]","The Betrothed - Introduction | PDF",1203]