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Alessandro Manzoni

Died in 1873

Alessandro Manzoni (died 1873) was born in Milan on 7 March 1785, the son of Giulia Beccaria and, in all likelihood, of Giovanni Verri rather than of Pietro Manzoni, his legal father. Educated in Somascan and Barnabite colleges, he later joined his mother in Paris. Married in 1808 to Enrichetta Blondel, a Calvinist, he converted to Catholicism around 1810, after her. He also wrote tragedies and odes. Appointed senator in 1860, he died in Milan on 22 May 1873; Verdi composed a requiem in his memory, first performed the following year.

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