![]() ![]() Manzoni was born in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 1785. ![]() His work and thinking has often been contrasted with that of his younger contemporary Giacomo Leopardi by critics. ![]() He was an influential proponent of Liberal Catholicism in Italy. Manzoni also contributed to the stabilization of the modern Italian language and helped to ensure linguistic unity throughout Italy. The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message and because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language. Italian: I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni ( UK: / m æ n ˈ z oʊ n i/, US: / m ɑː n( d) ˈ z oʊ n i/, Italian: 7 March 1785 – ) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. ![]()
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Morath, a veteran hero of the Great War and a Parisian for many years, now finds himself forced to rely on former enemies to try to rescue Eastern European fugitives displaced by Hitler's aggression. ![]() On a rainy night in 1938, the train from Budapest pulls into Paris bearing Nicholas Morath, a playboy Hungarian expatriate and sometime spy for his uncle, a wealthy Hungarian diplomat based in the French capital. The desperation of ""stateless"" people trying to escape the Nazi redrawing of the European map in the late 1930s pervades Furst's (Night Soldiers Red Gold, etc.) marvelous sixth espionage thriller. ![]() ![]() In 2005, she starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, the psychological thriller Red Eye, and the comedy-drama The Family Stone. She rose to fame in 2004 with the comedy Mean Girls and the romantic drama The Notebook. ![]() In 2002, she made her Hollywood film debut in the comedy The Hot Chick. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked in Canadian television and film productions, such as the drama film Perfect Pie (2002), for which she received a Genie Award nomination, the comedy film My Name Is Tanino (2002), and the comedy series Slings and Arrows (2003–2005), for which she won a Gemini Award. ![]() Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. ![]() In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel. Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what about when the other people of the island begin to think that Lucas has murdered someone along with various other crimes and want to bring him to justice? This is a truly page-turning, heart-wrenching, and dramatic story I could simply not put down, I was in tears reading it. He has been living on his own for a while in the murk of a dangerous swamp. 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