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WHY ANNUAL ITALIAN LECTURE FOR 1949 ALESSANDRO MANZONI By A. P. D'ENTRÈVES Read 25 January 1950 I WHY is Manzoni so little read , and indeed so little ap- preciated , in England ? The question has been asked many times .
WHY ANNUAL ITALIAN LECTURE FOR 1949 ALESSANDRO MANZONI By A. P. D'ENTRÈVES Read 25 January 1950 I WHY is Manzoni so little read , and indeed so little ap- preciated , in England ? The question has been asked many times .
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In the garish pageant of nineteenth - century Italy he may seem at first sight to cut a modest , almost elusive figure . But few among the writers ... zoni's work an importance which is in its way unique in modern Italian literature .
In the garish pageant of nineteenth - century Italy he may seem at first sight to cut a modest , almost elusive figure . But few among the writers ... zoni's work an importance which is in its way unique in modern Italian literature .
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An answer is already implicit in what I have said of the extraordinary novelty , in a country like Italy , of Manzoni's conception ... from its first appearance in 1827 , was an unprecedented event in the history of Italian publishing .
An answer is already implicit in what I have said of the extraordinary novelty , in a country like Italy , of Manzoni's conception ... from its first appearance in 1827 , was an unprecedented event in the history of Italian publishing .
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Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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| Title | Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 36 Proceedings of the British Academy, British Academy |
| Author | British Academy |
| Publisher | British Academy |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 25 Nov 2009 |
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