Alessandro Manzoni’s 1840 novel "The Betrothed" ("I Promessi Sposi") is set against the backdrop of a plague that struck the villages around Milan and then advanced into the city itself in 1630.
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Manzoni
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Manzoni outlines the mistakes that allowed the pestilence to spread, from the outlying villages of the contadini [peasants] to the Milanese.
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Manzoni notes that when news of the sickness reached the city “anyone might suppose that there would be a general stir of disquiet, a clamor for precautions of some kind [whatever their real value] to be taken ... But one of the few points about which all the memoirs of the time agree is that there was nothing of the kind ... Anyone who mentioned the danger of the pestilence, whether in the streets, the shops or in private houses — anyone who even mentioned the word ‘plague’ — was greeted with incredulous mockery or angry contempt.”
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Besides the thirty operas Verdi wrote a string quartet, the Manzoni Requiem, and a national hymn.
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