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    Born to an ancient noble family and grandson of a noted social reformer, this man wrote the first and one of the most famous examples of its genre in his native language -- a work set in the early 17th century that has been filmed several times. One of his great countrymen commemorated his death in music. Who was this author, what did he write, who was his grandfather, and what is the musical composition?

    Question #70071. Asked by lanfranco. (Aug 25 06 4:35 PM)


    peasypod

    		This sounds very much like Dumas and his Musketeers...hang on I'll go check.

    Aug 25 06, 5:33 PM
    peasypod

    		Then again, Aleksandr Pushkin is lookin' pretty good...

    Aug 25 06, 6:15 PM
    lanfranco

    		Nope, peasy, you need to move closer to "home," so to speak ...

    Aug 25 06, 6:32 PM
    peasypod

    		I'm getting there...just in the middle of diddling the taxman---priorities, m'dear. I'll keep looking in between 'deductions'. ;)

    Aug 25 06, 6:35 PM
    peasypod

    		Hmmmmm, wondering if this could be Alessandro Manzoni? Verdi dedicated his 'Requiem' on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. He wrote 'I Promessi Sposi', which most would know as 'The Betrothed'. His grandfather was Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Manzoni

    Got to get to work now....



    Aug 25 06, 11:40 PM
    lanfranco

    		That's the guy, peasy, and you get the mazza d'argento. (Sounds rather good in Italian.)

    Had you not come up with the answer, I had intended to offer as a clue the fact that the book is very "engaging" ....

    Aug 26 06, 3:51 PM

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