I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed, Ch. I), by Alessandro Manzoni
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Because of a fancy for a peasant girl, the tyrannical lord of an Italian village sent desperadoes to threaten the priest if he married the girl to her village lover. (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)
Manzoni died May 22, 1873.
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