Fiction
The Betrothed
by Claudio Nizzi, Paolo Piffarerio
Published in 1985 for the bicentenary of the birth of Manzoni, this comic transpositions had a great success and has succeeded to approach the youngest readers thanks to the simplification of comics. Here Manzoni is the storyteller who appears in his own house to tell the events “on the air”. Nizzi’s screenplay and Piffarerio’s drawing remain true to the text and to seventeenth-century customs, making the narration modern and engaging, as a comic should be.
