A first verse tragedy, The Count of Carmagnola, was published in 1820, and a second, Adelchi, in 1822. For years he followed the long list of rules prepared by his spiritual adviser, Father Luigi Tosi, which included the injunction: ‘Your work is to be considered part of the general penitence that God has imposed on the sons of Adam.’ In 1815 he published the Sacred Hymns and in 1819 Observations on Catholic Morality. Domestic stability brought with it an outpouring of poetry, which, after his conversion in 1810 from agnosticism to a severe form of Catholicism, took a decidedly religious turn. In 1792 his mother obtained a separation from Pietro, and later went to live with a lover in Paris, where Alessandro joined her in 1805. Sent to a wet nurse in the country, the boy spent most of his childhood at Catholic boarding schools, where he immersed himself in classical literature. She was bored by his company and it’s widely believed that Alessandro wasn’t his child. A lessandro Manzoni was born in 1785, the only child of an arranged marriage between Giulia Beccaria, daughter of the Milanese intellectual Cesare Beccaria, and Pietro Manzoni, a minor nobleman.
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