One author from this country wrote a novel involving a priest who is forbidden to perform a wedding by a local baron; it is titled The Betrothed. This country has produced a historical novel titled The Leopard and a Holocaust memoir titled If This Is A Man. A playwright from this country makes a reference to his own work Mixing It Up in a play involving several arguments with The Director; that work, in which the Father and the Step-Daughter offer to be subjects of the play, is Six Characters in Search of an Author. Name this modern-day nation 
One author from this country wrote a novel involving a priest who is forbidden to perform a wedding by a local baron; it is titled The Betrothed. This country has produced a historical novel titled The Leopard and a Holocaust memoir titled If This Is A Man. A playwright from this country makes a reference to his own work Mixing It Up in a play involving several arguments with The Director; that work, in which the Father and the Step-Daughter offer to be subjects of the play, is Six Characters in Search of an Author. Name this modern-day nation whose writers include Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe (juh-SEP-pay) di Lampedusa, Primo Levi (PREE-moe LEH-vee), and Luigi Piran- dello, located where Dante (DAHN-tay) lived.
One author from this country wrote a novel involving a priest who is forbidden to perform a wedding by a local baron; it is titled The Betrothed.
{Italy} [or {Italia}; or {Italian}]