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The first traslation of The Betrothed Lovers

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It was in 1828 that Charles Swan, a retired Royal Navy chaplain living in Pisa, translated I Promessi Sposi into English and had the three volumes published by Niccolo Capurro.

The BETROTHED LOVERS

A

Milanese Tale of the XVIIth. Century

Translated

From the Italian

Of

Alessandro Manzoni

"I never heard

Of any true affection, but was nipt

With care, that like the caterpillar eats

The leaves of the Spring's sweetest book, the rose."

In three volumes

Vol. I.

PISA:

Niccolo Capurro, Lung'Arno.

1828
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