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Del romanzo storico

Alessandro Manzoni Original title Del romanzo storico (Italian, 1830)

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“What comes after is not always progress.”

Non sempre ciò che vien dopo è progresso.
"Del romanzo storico" (1850), in Andrea Tagliapietra (ed.) La storia e l'invenzione (Milano: Gallone, 1997) p. 64; Sandra Bermann (trans.) On the Historical Novel (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984) p. 113

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