Alessandro Manzoni

One of the most famous Italian novels is The Betrothed (i.e., I Promessi Sposi) by Alessandro Manzoni. It’s a classic for Italian: the equivalent of Mark Twain for Americans. Unfortunately, because they had to read it when they were children in school and because of its length – the Penguin Classics paperback is 720 pages – Italians often tell me they hated it. Perhaps they should take it off the required reading list and trust in the writing itself will attrack adult readers. I read it in English when I was about 30 years old. I enjoyed it very much and thought it one of best novels ever.

The first set of stamps are related to Manzoni and his novel, The Betrothed. The first four show scenes from the novel, including the heroine of the story, Lucia Mondella. The last two show Manzoni’s home and an image of him. Incidentally, there’s a great statue of Manzoni in Milan near where I live.

Note

These two sets of stamps are nice, but they have kind of a dull coloring to them. The page with these sets together looks dusty. I probably shouldn’t have put them together when I designed the page in Adobe Photoshop. But it’s not so bad that it’s worth the time to change this page along with the ones around it in the album.

Contains 12 spots: own 12 – 12 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 4, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

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own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Alessandro Manzoni

1.1	✓	71	Pescarenico	10c (apr 1924) comm., black & brown red
1.2	✓	72	Lecco & Resegone	15c (apr 1924) comm., green & black
2.1	✓	74	Lake Como	50c (apr 1924) comm., black & orange brown
2.2	✓	73	Lucia Mondella	30c (apr 1924) comm., black & slate
3.1	✓	75	Manzoni Home	1₤ (apr 1924) comm., blue black
3.2	✓	76	Alessandro Manzoni	5₤ (apr 1924) comm., black & purple

Holy Year

4.1	✓	87	St. Mary Major Basilica	20+10c (jun 1925) semi-postal, dark green & grey brown
4.2	✓	88	St. John Lateran	30+15c (jun 1925) semi-postal, brown & light brown
4.3	✓	89	St. Paul Outside Walls	50+25c (jun 1925) semi-postal, violet & grey brown
5.1	✓	90	St. Peter’s Basilica	60+30c (jun 1925) semi-postal, carmine & grey brown
5.2	✓	91	Opening Holy Door	1₤+50c (jun 1925) semi-postal, blue & violet
5.3	✓	92	Closing Holy Door	5+2.50₤ (jun 1925) semi-postal, violet & orange

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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