Retiring to a quiet life in Milan and at his villa in Brusuglio, he wrote (1812–15) a series of religious poems, Inni sacri (1815 The Sacred Hymns), on the church feasts of Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter, and a hymn to Mary. In 1808 he married Henriette Blondel, a Calvinist, who soon converted to Roman Catholicism, and two years later Manzoni himself returned to Catholicism. When his mother’s lover and his father died, the former left him a comfortable income, through his mother. His anticlerical poem “ Il trionfo della libertà” demonstrates his independence of thought. In 1805 he joined his mother and her lover in Paris, where he moved in radical circles and became a convert to Voltairian skepticism. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īlessandro Manzoni, (born March 7, 1785, Milan-died May 22, 1873, Milan), Italian poet and novelist whose novel I promessi sposi ( The Betrothed) had immense patriotic appeal for Italians of the nationalistic Risorgimento period and is generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.Īfter Manzoni’s parents separated in 1792, he spent much of his childhood in religious schools.

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