Alessio Boni reads I promessi sposi by Alessandro Manzoni

“Once upon a time, in the heart of the city, there was a huge library in a building called Brera. One day the library began to read.”
 

Alessio Boni is an Italian film, theatre and television actor.

Alessandro Manzoni (1785 – 1873) is the author of The Betrothed. In Chapters XXXI and XXXII he describes the city of Milan during a plague epidemic.

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