Alessandro Manzoni citáty
Alessandro Manzoni
Dátum narodenia: 7. marec 1785
Dátum úmrtia: 22. máj 1873
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni, taliansky spisovateľ a básnik, hlavný predstaviteľ talianskeho romantizmu.
Citáty Alessandro Manzoni
„But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.“
— Alessandro Manzoni
Context: But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
Ch. 27, p. 374
Variant translation:
<!-- His knowledge of history, especially universal history, was not less vast and solid. --> "But," said he often, "what is history without politics? a guide who conducts without teaching any one the way; as politics without history, is a man without a guide to conduct him."
Richard Bentley translation (1834)
„The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach.“
— Alessandro Manzoni
Ch. 11, p. 155
„What comes after is not always progress.“
— Alessandro Manzoni
"Del romanzo storico" (1850), in Andrea Tagliapietra (ed.) La storia e l'invenzione (Milano: Gallone, 1997) p. 64; Sandra Bermann (trans.) On the Historical Novel (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984) p. 113
