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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The Odyssey (Book XII), by Homer
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Introductory Note: Pierre Corneille
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Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: John Keats
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The Frogs, by Aristophanes
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 1), by Benjamin Franklin
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