Alessandro Manzoni’s nineteenth-century Italian novel tells the story of two lovers who overcome all obstacles to their union. This historical novel offers keen character portraits and insights into the human mind. Considered the most famous and widely-read novel of the Italian language, I Promessi Sposi is also celebrated for its vivid description of the plague’s spread through seventeenth-century Milan.
The Harvard Classics
Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics.
