His first play took as its title character a man who won the battle of Maclodio for Francesco Foscari after being insulted by Fillippo Maria Visconti, and his second play depicted Charlemagne's invasion of Lombardy.  Before turning to drama, he wrote poetic works like "The Triumph of Liberty," which he published at age 16, and the classically inspired "Urania."  In addition to The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchi, he wrote a novel about a barber named Mora and a health commissioner named Piazza who were tortured to death on suspicion of spreading a plague in 1630.  That novel is a sequel to this man's best known work, which features an unnamed outlaw, a nobleman named Don Rodrigo, and the peasant he wants to seduce, Lucia.  FTP, name this author of 1827's The Betrothed who is considered the greatest Italian novelist.
His first play took as its title character a man who won the battle of Maclodio for Francesco Foscari after being insulted by Fillippo Maria Visconti, and his second play depicted Charlemagne's invasion of Lombardy.  Before turning to drama, he wrote poetic works like "The Triumph of Liberty," which he published at age 16, and the classically inspired "Urania."  In addition to The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchi, he wrote a novel about a barber named Mora and a health commissioner named Piazza who were tortured to death on suspicion of spreading a plague in 1630.  That novel is a sequel to this man's best known work, which features an unnamed outlaw, a nobleman named Don Rodrigo, and the peasant he wants to seduce, Lucia.  FTP, name this author of 1827's The Betrothed who is considered the greatest Italian novelist.
His first play took as its title character a man who won the battle of Maclodio for Francesco Foscari after being insulted by Fillippo Maria Visconti, and his second play depicted Charlemagne's invasion of Lombardy.  
Alessandro Manzoni