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Do not read this novel! Read the review
A thousand years ago, an Italian-American friend, a vehement partisan, told me I had to read the Great Italian Novel. Which I’d never heard of. As I said, she was vehement; there was no room for evasion. So I bought … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi, Guelphs and Ghibellines, I Promessi Sposi, Joan Acocella, The Betrothed, The Great Italian Novel, The New Yorker, The Verdi Requiem
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