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Alessandro Manzoni

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Noun1.Alessandro Manzoni - Italian novelist and poet (1785-1873)
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Since Hans von Bülow first dubbed Verdi's Requiem "an opera in church vestments", the debate has continued as to whether the work, written to honour the passing of the Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni in 1873, is an authentic liturgical setting or a secular music drama masquerading as a mass.
Hallé/Elder by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Its boundaries are, roughly, Via Alessandro Manzoni (west), Via della Spiga (north), Corso Venezia (east), and Via Monte Napoleone (south).
Milan: the fashion revolution by The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni is considered one of the greatest works in Italian literature, and is the most widely read novel in the Italian language, possibly because generations of school kids have to read it
The history of Milan by Richards, Catherine / Milan & the Italian Lakes Adventure Guide
 
 
 
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