A Lesson in Humility, a Lesson for Our Times Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed

Authors

Alberto Mingardi, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2020

Abstract

A story of two young lovers in seventeenth-century Lombardy whose attempt to get married is hindered by a jealous nobleman, The Betrothed (1827) is both one of the world’s greatest works of historical fiction and one of the best treatises of political economy ever penned. It’s no wonder that knowledgeable economists have urged government ministers and business managers to dip into Alessandro Manzoni’s literary masterpiece whenever they had an idle moment.

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This article was originally published in The Independent Review, volume 25, issue 3, in 2020.

Recommended Citation

Mingardi, Alberto. 2020. "A Lesson in Humility, a Lesson for Our Times: Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed." The Independent Review 25(3). https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1549

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