Word: manzoni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although a large section of the Chamber rose cheering, at this remark, the Italian Ambassador at Paris, Count Manzoni, was reported vexed that M. Briand had chosen so lukewarm a phrase as "without displeasure." Next morning obliging Aristide Briand declared that he had actually said "with pleasure," and the official stenographic record of the Chamber was altered accordingly...
Eleanora Duse in the Manzoni Theatre, where the famed tragedienne won so many of her successes...
Count Giovanni Manzoni, former Italian Minister to Yugo-Slavia, was slated as first Italian Ambassador to Soviet Russia...
...whose rule has been characterized by sanity and vigor. Recently he has given additional proof of his many-sided genius, by active interest in a movement to improve the moral standard of Italian literature, and again by a proclamation requesting the observance of the fiftieth anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death. His phrasing in this is characteristic: "I desire that, even abroad as in the kingdom, we remember that date by fitting ceremonies." Manzoni is the dominant figure of modern Italian literature; one who has done more for its advance and the standardization of its diction than any other modern...