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“... Alessandro Manzoni​ was born in 1785, the only child of an arranged marriage between Giulia Beccaria, daughter of the Milanese intellectual Cesare Beccaria, and Pietro Manzoni, a minor nobleman. Pietro was 26 years older than his wife. She was bored by his company and it’s widely believed that Alessandro wasn’t his child ...”

“... objective, ‘the military metaphor’; on the way, she finds support in Nietzsche, Defoe and Alessandro Manzoni. Other writers expand the damaging mythologies of plague: Thomas Mann’s works, she observes, form ‘a storehouse of early 20th-century disease myths’. She writes against the discourse of retribution, noting that the Emperor ...”

“... the 1970s, in the early 1980s she produced a remarkable study of Italy’s most famous novelist, Alessandro Manzoni, author of The Betrothed (1827), or rather a study of Manzoni’s family. She makes liberal and fascinating use of letters and other archives, and understands ...”