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Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK: /mænˈzoʊni/, US: /mɑːn(d)ˈzoʊni/, Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist.
He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message and because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language. Manzoni also contributed to the stabilization of the modern Italian language and helped to ensure linguistic unity throughout Italy.
He was an influential proponent of Liberal Catholicism in Italy. He is also considered one of the three crowns of Romanticism in Italy, within Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi, despite their differences. He is often associated as the moral and cultural leader of the Italian unification with his younger contemporary Leopardi, though his work and thinking often contrast with the latter.
Manzoni was born in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 1785. Pietro, his father, aged about fifty, belonged to an old family of Lecco, originally feudal lords of Barzio, in the Valsassina. However, his biological father was likely Giovanni Verri, brother of the influential Enlightenment thinkers Pietro and Alessandro Verri, and a habitué, along with his brothers and Giulia Beccaria, of the dazzling liberal Società del Caffè. The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author and philosopher, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well. The young Alessandro 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. In 1792 his parents broke their marriage and his mother began a relationship with the writer Carlo Imbonati, moving to England and later to Paris.
As a boy, Alessandro rarely saw his mother. He seems to have had a cool and distant relationship with his father. At the age of six, he was sent away from home to begin his schooling in a variety of religious boarding schools operated by the Somaschi and Barnabite fathers. From an early age, Alessandro was drawn to literature, to poetry in particular, and to the ideals of liberty, reason and atheism. Among his first poems was one from this period entitled The Triumph of Liberty (1801), a poem of considerable merit in praise of the French Revolution. In 1804 Manzoni began to frequent the circle of Neoclassical poets gathered around Vincenzo Monti, whom he had already known and admired for some time before; Monti's insfluence is especially apparent in th poems of Manzoni's classicist period, most notably Adda (1803), and Urania (1807).
His friendship with the scholars Francesco Lomonaco and Vincenzo Cuoco, who had fled Bourbon Naples after the fall of the Parthenopean Republic, further contributed to his revolutionary leanings and introduced him to historical studies and the philosophical ideas of Giambattista Vico. In 1804 Cuoco entrusted the nineteen year old Manzoni with the editing of his novel Platone in Italia.
Manzoni sojourned in Venice from the fall of 1803 to the spring of the following year. Here he attended salon hosted by Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi and made the acquaintance of Ippolito Pindemonte and Ugo Foscolo. Upon the death of his father in 1807, he joined the freethinking household of his mother at Auteuil, and came into contact with the group of philosophers known as the Idéologues, among whom he made many friends, notably Claude Charles Fauriel. He established close ties with the intellectual leader of the Idéologues, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, whose daughter he was at a certain point supposed to marry. Through Fauriel and Madame de Condorcet, Manzoni met some of the leading intellectual figures of Paris, among them Augustin Thierry, François Guizot, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Benjamin Constant. He became a close friend of Victor Cousin, Marcellin de Fresne and Marquis Jean-Baptiste de Montgrand, who later translated into French Manzoni's Inni Sacri an The Betrothed.
In 1806–1807, while at Auteuil, Manzoni published his first works, the neoclassical poem Urania, inspired by Monti's Musogonia, and an elegy in blank verse, on the death of Count Carlo Imbonati. In the notes to his Sepolcri, Foscolo highly praised Manzoni's ode In morte di Carlo Imbonati as the "poetry of a young talent born for literature and warm with love of country".
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Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK: /mænˈzoʊni/, US: /mɑːn(d)ˈzoʊni/, Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist.
He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message and because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language. Manzoni also contributed to the stabilization of the modern Italian language and helped to ensure linguistic unity throughout Italy.
He was an influential proponent of Liberal Catholicism in Italy. He is also considered one of the three crowns of Romanticism in Italy, within Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi, despite their differences. He is often associated as the moral and cultural leader of the Italian unification with his younger contemporary Leopardi, though his work and thinking often contrast with the latter.
Manzoni was born in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 1785. Pietro, his father, aged about fifty, belonged to an old family of Lecco, originally feudal lords of Barzio, in the Valsassina. However, his biological father was likely Giovanni Verri, brother of the influential Enlightenment thinkers Pietro and Alessandro Verri, and a habitué, along with his brothers and Giulia Beccaria, of the dazzling liberal Società del Caffè. The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author and philosopher, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well. The young Alessandro 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. In 1792 his parents broke their marriage and his mother began a relationship with the writer Carlo Imbonati, moving to England and later to Paris.
As a boy, Alessandro rarely saw his mother. He seems to have had a cool and distant relationship with his father. At the age of six, he was sent away from home to begin his schooling in a variety of religious boarding schools operated by the Somaschi and Barnabite fathers. From an early age, Alessandro was drawn to literature, to poetry in particular, and to the ideals of liberty, reason and atheism. Among his first poems was one from this period entitled The Triumph of Liberty (1801), a poem of considerable merit in praise of the French Revolution. In 1804 Manzoni began to frequent the circle of Neoclassical poets gathered around Vincenzo Monti, whom he had already known and admired for some time before; Monti's insfluence is especially apparent in th poems of Manzoni's classicist period, most notably Adda (1803), and Urania (1807).
His friendship with the scholars Francesco Lomonaco and Vincenzo Cuoco, who had fled Bourbon Naples after the fall of the Parthenopean Republic, further contributed to his revolutionary leanings and introduced him to historical studies and the philosophical ideas of Giambattista Vico. In 1804 Cuoco entrusted the nineteen year old Manzoni with the editing of his novel Platone in Italia.
Manzoni sojourned in Venice from the fall of 1803 to the spring of the following year. Here he attended salon hosted by Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi and made the acquaintance of Ippolito Pindemonte and Ugo Foscolo. Upon the death of his father in 1807, he joined the freethinking household of his mother at Auteuil, and came into contact with the group of philosophers known as the Idéologues, among whom he made many friends, notably Claude Charles Fauriel. He established close ties with the intellectual leader of the Idéologues, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, whose daughter he was at a certain point supposed to marry. Through Fauriel and Madame de Condorcet, Manzoni met some of the leading intellectual figures of Paris, among them Augustin Thierry, François Guizot, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Benjamin Constant. He became a close friend of Victor Cousin, Marcellin de Fresne and Marquis Jean-Baptiste de Montgrand, who later translated into French Manzoni's Inni Sacri an The Betrothed.
In 1806–1807, while at Auteuil, Manzoni published his first works, the neoclassical poem Urania, inspired by Monti's Musogonia, and an elegy in blank verse, on the death of Count Carlo Imbonati. In the notes to his Sepolcri, Foscolo highly praised Manzoni's ode In morte di Carlo Imbonati as the "poetry of a young talent born for literature and warm with love of country".
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