For 10 points -- name this Italian novelist who in 1827 wrote about virtuous peasants Renzo and Lucia in his I Promessi Sposi or The Betrothed.
He lived to be 88, but virtually all his literary output occurred between 1812 and 1827. He started by trying to make out that all the good things about the French Revolution were Catholic in his Sacred Hymns, which he followed up with the dramas The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchi. His most famous work featured Cardinal Borromeo and Fra Cristoforo working to foil Don Rodrigo, who is trying to foil the event implied by the title. For 10 points -- name this Italian novelist who in 1827 wrote about virtuous peasants Renzo and Lucia in his I Promessi Sposi or The Betrothed.
He lived to be 88, but virtually all his literary output occurred between 1812 and 1827.
Alessandro Manzoni