![]() ![]() ![]() The date 1840 appears on the title page, though printing went on until 1845: Manzoni was never quite satisfied with his novel and emended it continuously while it was being printed, which resulted in a number of minute differences that can be traced to a specific “print run”. Published in instalments between 18, it is nicknamed “ quarantana” (an adjectival form for 40 - short for 1840 - used uniquely for this book on the basis of “ventisettana”, an adjectival form for 27 - short for 1827 – used uniquely for the first edition). Thirteen years after the first edition of The betrothed, Manzoni was ready to print the definitive, profoundly revised and augmented second edition of his masterpiece, the most important Italian novel of the Eighteen-hundreds. Second official edition, augmented and revised. Milano, dalla Tipografia Guglielmini e Redaelli, 1840. Edizione riveduta dall’autore - Storia della Colonna Infame, inedita I Promessi Sposi, storia milanese del secolo XVII scoperta e rifatta da Alessandro Manzoni. ![]()
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