![]() ![]() ![]() At fifteen, however, he developed a passion for poetry, and wrote two sonnets of considerable merit. ![]() For this reason, their son was brought up in several religious institutes.Alessandro Manzoni was a slow developer, and at the various colleges he attended he was considered a dunce. In 1793 his parents broke their marriage and his mother began a relationship with the highbrow Carlo Imbonati, moving to England and later to Paris. The young Alessandro spent his first two years of life in cascina Costa in Galbiate and he was wet-nursed by Caterina Panzeri, as attested by a memorial plate affixed in the place. The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well. Pietro, his father, aged about fifty, belonged to an old family of Lecco, originally feudal lords of Barzio, in the Valsassina. Manzoni was born in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 1785. Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (7 March 1785 - ) was an Italian poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed, one of the major works of Italian literature. ![]()
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