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The Manzoni Family

First edition in English of Natalia Ginzburg's The Manzoni Family

Natalia Ginzburg; translated by Marie Evans
First edition in English. 8vo. 358 pp. Black cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine. Genealogy table and map of Italy in the Risorgimento at rear. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.
Translated from the Italian by Marie Evans. Originally published as La famiglia Manzoni by Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino, 1983.
Winner of the 1984 Bagutta Prize. An epic biography of Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the masterpiece of 19th-century Italian literature I promessi sposi (The Betrothed). Ginzburg insists that The Manzoni Family should be read as a novel – "without demanding more or less of it than a novel can give". "A glowing light of modern Italian literature.... As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart." The New York Times Book Review
edition
first in English
format
hardback
scarcity
scarce
publisher
Carcanet Press
published in
Manchester
publication year
1987
ISBN
0856356344
pagination
358 pages
genre
biography & autobiography
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
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ref.5Q4 R2Y