Giovanni Battista Niccolini
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Giovanni Battista Niccolini was an Italian poet and playwright of the Italian unification movement or Risorgimento.
1864 portrait by Stefano Ussi
Niccolini Memorial Statue depicting Freedom of Poetry (1870-1876), Santa Croce, Florence, sculpture by Pio Fedi
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
Giovanni Battista Niccolini
…Robert Browning. The work evoked the patriotism of those seeking to free Italy from the control of foreign and papal forces. Niccolini was a friend of Alessandro Manzoni and Ugo Foscolo. The latter dedicated to him one of his earliest works, the Italian translation of Catullus' Coma Berenices (1803). He was one of the…
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