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A New Translation of Manzoni's 'The Betrothed'

Joan Acocella’s reassessment of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi, 1827), in The New Yorker, is worth a read.

I went through large sections of the book near the beginning of the pandemic, and was delighted to see that Modern Library has published a new edition.

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