Guides To get the printed Guides or download the files, click here.
Specials 60% discount! A complete Dalkey Archive translated collection: 70 books for $400. Modern Classics 50 of Peter Owen's finest books for $500. 30% discount! A set of nine printed Babel Guides
News Enter your email address and we'll send you updates on what we are doing.
Sponsors Check out Boulevard's
Literary, Jewish, and Hungarian books here.
by Alessandro Manzoni Translated by B Penman Original title: I promessi sposi
The Betrothed is the ‘bible’ of Italian literature. Set in seventeenth century Lombardy when Italy was under Spanish rule, it tells the symbolic story of Renzo and Lucia, whose intended wedding is obstructed by the whim of a bullying minor lord, Don Rodrigo. (more...)
![[front cover]](/img/covers/014044274X_m.gif)
![[front cover]](/img/covers/0714540420_m.gif)
