It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.
• Ch. 4, p. 44
• Ch. 4, p. 44
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È uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser odiati, senza conoscersi.
— Alessandro Manzoni
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "È uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser odiati, senza conoscersi." in the context of "It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.
• Ch. 4, p. 44" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Alessandro Manzoni" (Quotes, The Betrothed (1827; 1842): I promessi sposi, [The Betrothed]; Manzoni's first version of this story was written between April 1821 and September 1823 and titled Fermo e Lucia. He then heavily revised and finished it as Gli sposi promessi in August 1825; after two years of corrections and proof-checking, it was first published as I promessi sposi in 1827. Manzoni afterwards revised this into the dialect of Florence for the final revision published in 1842. English quotations and page-numbers are taken from the translation of Archibald Colquhoun (1956), unless otherwise indicated. · The Betrothed (1834), as published by Richard Bentley )
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About Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian novelist, poet, dramatist and critic, most famous for his novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed).
About Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian novelist, poet, dramatist and critic, most famous for his novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed).
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