Modern Translation of Italy's Most Treasured Novel: The Most Accurate Translation of Manzoni's Literary Masterpiece From: Italian Voice, The | Date: May 23, 2002 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Italian Voice, The

05-23-2002

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- When Italian novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni
published I Promessi Sposi, acclaimed author Edgar Allan Poe, and German
poet Goethe praised it enthusiastically. Sir Walter Scott called it the
"greatest romance of modem times," and opera composer Giuseppe Verdi
thought it was one of the greatest books ever written. There have been
several attempts to translate it into English but most of them have fai...

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