Five years later, Verdi reworked his " Libera Me " section of the Rossini Requiem and made it a part of his Requiem Mass, honoring the famous novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni, who had died in 1873.

Italian literature's first modern novel, I Promessi Sposi ( The Betrothed ), by Alessandro Manzoni, further defined the standard by " rinsing " his Milanese " in the waters of the Arno " ( Florence's river ), as he states in the Preface to his 1840 edition.

* The Betrothed ( 1842 ) by Alessandro Manzoni

The modern Italian of Risorgimento patriots like Alessandro Manzoni was based on the Tuscan dialects sanctified by Dante and Petrarch.

He directed Adelchi, one of the lesser-known works by Alessandro Manzoni.

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873 ) was an Italian poet and novelist.

Alessandro Manzoni was a slow developer, and at the various colleges he attended he was considered a dunce.

Statue of Alessandro Manzoni in Milan

* Alessandro Manzoni poems

The original course of the river is now covered by the Via Torre Vanga, Via Torre Verde and the Via Alessandro Manzoni.

Marianna de Leyva belongs to the family or Sister Virginia, historical figure that inspired Alessandro Manzoni for the figure of the Nun of Monza.

Bancroft capped off his education with a European tour, in the course of which he sought out almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and Alessandro Manzoni.

His daughter Giulia was the mother of Alessandro Manzoni, the noted Italian novelist and poet who wrote among other things: I Promessi Sposi, one of the first Italian historical novels and " Il 5 Maggio ", a poem on Napoleon's death.

Those who enjoyed his closest intimacy were the physiologist Cabanis ( Madame de Condorcet's brother-in-law ), the poet Alessandro Manzoni, the publicist Benjamin Constant, and François Guizot.

" He knew nearly all the most interesting people in Italy, besides many distinguished foreigners: Giuseppe Giusti, the poet, Alessandro Manzoni, the novelist, Niccolò Tommaseo, Richard Cobden, A von Reumont, the historian, were among those whom he entertained at his palace or his villas, and many were the struggling students and revolutionists to whom he gave assistance.

When in 1854 Beatrice Cenci was lambasted by Francesco de Sanctis ( who had turned pro-Savoia ), he wrote to a friend: " Honoured Alessandro Manzoni, I am put down ... to think that as far back as ' 40 Britons and Germans saw us as leaders of two different schools, and his they labelled sleep-inducing ".

There are four bridges crossing the river Adda in Lecco: the Azzone Visconti Bridge ( 1336 – 1338 ), the Kennedy Bridge ( 1956 ) and the Alessandro Manzoni Bridge ( 1985 ) and a railroad bridge.

Alessandro Manzoni set the events in the first half of The Betrothed in Lecco, a town he knew deeply since he had spent part of his childhood there.

It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist much admired by Verdi.

Alessandro Manzoni, in whose honour Verdi wrote the Requiem

On 22 May 1873, the Italian writer and humanist Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi had admired all his adult life and met in 1868, died.

Alessandro Manzoni in his Adelchi, names one duke Guinigi of Ivrea, chosen by king Desiderius as defender of Pavia.

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** I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

* 1981 – Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer

* 1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

* Infanta Beatríz Isabela Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladisláa of Spain ( 1909 – 2002 ), who married Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

* 1922 – Alessandro Moreschi, Italian singer ( b. 1858 )

* 1966 – Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

* 1969 – Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer

* 1728 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer ( d. 1804 )

* 1592 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer ( b. 1540 )

* 1972 – Alessandro Sturba, Italian footballer

* 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist ( d. 1827 )

Portrait of a Woman, Alessandro Allori ( 1535 – 1607 ; Uffizi Gallery ): a plucked hairline gives a fashionably " noble brow "

* 1900 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director ( d. 1987 )

* 1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer

* 1510 – Alessandro de ' Medici, Duke of Florence ( d. 1537 )

* 1702 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer and oboist ( d. 1775 )

The second half of the century saw no composers equal in stature, but in the early 17th century Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger ( c. 1580 – 1651 ) and Alessandro Piccinini ( 1566 – 1638 ) revolutionized the instrument's technique and Kapsberger, possibly, influenced the keyboard music of Frescobaldi.

* 1660 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer ( d. 1725 )

* 1983 – Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer

Alessandro Allori's ( 1535 – 1607 ) Susanna and the Elders ( below ) uses artificial, waxy eroticism and consciously brilliant still life detail, in a crowded contorted composition.