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    Natalia Ginzburg’s Broken Mirror

    by Tim Parks Aug 27, 2019 3 minutes

    Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni, 1841, oil on canvas, 46″ x 36″. Public domain.

    is a meeting between two authors who at first glance could hardly seem more different. Alessandro Manzoni is simply the most celebrated figure in modern Italian literature. His great novel , published in quite different editions in 1827 and 1840, is the first modern novel in Italian, the later edition marking a milestone in the con­solidation of Tuscan Italian as the language for a potentially united Italy. Profoundly Catholic in inspiration, the book was placed at the core of the Italian

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