Alessandro Manzoni
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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
Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni by Francesco Hayez (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1841)
Manzoni's family in a drawing by Ernesta Legnani Bisi
Illustration for the tragedy Il Conte di Carmagnola by Francesco Hayez
Frontispiece of The Betrothed in the second definitive edition of 1840–1842
Cesare Beccaria
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Cesare Beccaria Bonesana, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punis
Alessandro Manzoni
…Alessandro Verri, and a habitué, along with his brothers and Giulia Beccaria, of the dazzling liberal Società del Caffè. Manzoni's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author and philosopher, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well. The young Manzoni spent his first two years in cascina…
Portrait by Eliseo Sala
Frontpage of the original Italian edition Dei delitti e delle pene
Cesare Beccaria, Dei delitti e delle pene
Statue of Beccaria in Pinacoteca Brera, Milan