La prima voce del Manzoni apologista

A first Introduction with clear considerations also of a political nature emerges from the fragments discarded for the first edition of Alessandro Manzoni’s Osservazioni sulla morale cattolica: it confirms the increasingly clear image of an author fully involved in the events of his time, but forced for censorship reasons to avoid any explicit reference to the oppressive historical contingency. This contribution constitutes a further addition to the portrait presented in Imprimatur. Si stampi Manzoni (Marsilio, 2020).