In this novel, a man puts bells on his ankles to disguise himself as one of the red-robed men whose cart he uses to escape a mob yelling “Get the anointer!” A governess’s role in rewriting this novel into a dialect that became its language’s written standard is recounted in a book titled for its author’s family, written by the author of Family Lexicon. The phrase “the unfortunate woman replied” comes from this novel’s digression on the seduced nun Gretchen. In this novel, a silk weaver finds loaves lying on the ground after fleeing his mountain home and arriving in a city during a bread riot. The female protagonist of this novel is freed from a castle after the conversion of the Unnamed. A famine and a plague occur in this novel, in which Don Rodrigo schemes to seize Renzo’s beloved Lucia. For 10 points, name this magnum opus of Alessandro Manzoni. ■END■
ANSWER: The Betrothed [or I promessi sposi] (Emilia Luti helped rewrite the novel in Tuscan Italian, as described in The Manzoni Family by Natalia Ginzburg.)
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