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.
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
Discourse on the Passion of Love, by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XXXIV-XXXVIII), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings, by Abraham Lincoln
Introductory Note: René Descartes
Discourse on the Method (Part I-II), by René Descartes
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English (XVIII-XIX), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Tacitus
Germany, by Tacitus
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
Poems, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield, by Samuel Johnson
Introductory Note: Christopher Marlowe
Edward the Second (Act V), by Christopher Marlowe
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights (The Second Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea)
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