by Natalia Ginzburg · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806115685
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«La famiglia Manzoni» is Natalia Ginzburg's biographical essay about the Manzoni family, an Einaudi paperback (347 pages, in Italian).
The work focuses on Alessandro Manzoni, author of 'I promessi sposi', and on the women of the Manzoni family, from ducal Italy to post-revolutionary France and the years of the Risorgimento. Ginzburg combines the private life of the Manzonis with historical events, offering a collective portrait of a dynasty centred on the writer.
The work was originally published in 1983 and was awarded the Bagutta Prize in 1984; this edition belongs to the collection Gli Struzzi, number 362.
Readers interested in the figure of Alessandro Manzoni, in Italian literature and in nineteenth-century history.
Natalia Levi Ginzburg was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and the United States.
