by Alessandro Manzoni · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437605388
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«Los novios» is the historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (736 pages, in Spanish).
Set in seventeenth-century Lombardy under Spanish rule, the novel follows peasants Renzo Tramaglino and Lucía Mondella, whose wedding is thwarted by the threat of the powerful Don Rodrigo. Amid flights, separations, and revolts, the narrative portrays with irony the injustices and inequalities of the society of the time.
Third edition, edited by M.ª Nieves Muñiz. Part of the Letras Universales collection (no. 24) from Ediciones Cátedra.
For readers of classic fiction and historical novels; a work of Italian Romanticism that shaped nineteenth-century narrative.
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. He is best known for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. The novel, published in 1827, is a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento for its patriotic message, and also because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern and unified Italian language.
