Manzoni’s Betrothed fuses Enlightenment reason uneasily with Catholic Quietism.

Evidence

Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873), Italian novelist and poet, brought up on the ideas of the French and Italian Enlightenment but converted to Catholicism in or about 1810. His major work is the historical novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) (1827: revised and pardy rewritten 1840) in which Enlightenment ideas co-exist uneasily with Catholic Quietism. The Inni sacri (Sacred Hymns, or Songs) date from 1812-22. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2582

Categorization

• XREF: Manzoni’s quietist resignation to providence contrasts with the active-hegemony and common-sense concepts Gramsci develops elsewhere in these notebooks. — connects to: Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122
• SHARE: A niche literary-historical tidbit for a single reader who cares about the Italian novel and Enlightenment-Catholicism tensions.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122

Broader Connections

• Enlightenment reason reshaped religious providence rather than displacing it #complicates (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 122