... single literary genre, I examine the rhetoric of anachronism in two historical novels—Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi ( The Betrothed ) and Giorgio Bassani's Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini ( The Garden of the Finzi-Continis )—two texts dealing with the Holocaust—Primo Levi's “Il tramonto di Fòssoli...

.... New York: Schocken Books, 1988 . 69 -82. Bermann, Sandra, trans. and ed. Introduction. On the Historical Novel . By Alessandro Manzoni. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984 . Bloom, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence . New York: Oxford, 1973 . Brown, Marshall, ed. The Uses...

... ): 275 -84. Manzoni, Alessandro. “Letter on Romanticism.” Intro. and trans. Joseph Luzzi. PMLA 119.2 ( 2004 ): 299 -316. BOOK REVIEWS Or l a n d o f u r i o s o . By Lodovico Ariosto. A New Verse Translation by David R. Slavitt. Cam...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

... a n t i c Eu r O P e a n d t h e Gh o s t o f It a l y . By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. Alessandro Manzoni, one of the “ambivalent tre corone (three crowns) of Italian Roman- ticism” (17), along with Ugo Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi...

.... ____. “Manzoni e noi.” Opinioni . Milano: Il Saggiatore, 1961 . 53 -65. ____. “Neorealismo nel cinema italiano.” Opinioni . Milano: Il Saggiatore, 1961 . 90 -101. ____. “Responsabilità della donna intellettuale.” Le donne e la cultura . Ed. Sibilla Aleramo. Roma: Noi Donne, 1953 : 89 -93...

.... ARISTOCRACY AND THE NOVEL / 105 scripted for him by the history of the novel in general and by Manzoni’s I promessi sposi in particular, in which the rather inept nobleman-rake Don Rodrigo insti- gates the kidnapping of Lucia from her protection in the convent at Monza. (Manzoni’s novelistic...