Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (1785-1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. His novel "The Betrothed" (in Italian, "I Promessi Sposi") raised him to the first rank of literary fame. It is generally agreed to be his greatest work.
Mattia Pascal is the first incarnation of Pirandello's memorable series of nonheroes, the prototype of his man without qualities, at once dead and alive, prisoner of reality, forced to relinquish his yearning for freedom to an implacable logic of defeat.
Spain's greatest twentieth-century poet and most influencial modernist speaks to a new generation of readers in this revised edition of his complete poetical works. Reprint.