Engaged

Engaged

A bold and original reinterpretation of Manzoni’s classic 150 years after the death of Alessandro Manzoni, Beppe Roncari presents a chilling horror and fantasy reimagining of one of Italy’s most beloved novels, The Betrothed, a work admired by literary giant Goethe, recently translated in modern english by renowned italianist Michael Moore.

Engaged for centuries in a relentless battle between Good and Evil, the angel Mumiah and the demon Belial witness the burning of Giordano Bruno, hoping to seize the famous Secret Book written by the Nolan philosopher, guardian of a power that transcends death.

When the volume disappears, they begin a frantic search that leads them to Lecco and intertwines with the lives of two young people: Renzo and Lucia. Betrothed and about to fulfill their dream of love, they become pawns in the chess game between the angel, who tries in every way to help them, and the demon, who uses Don Rodrigo and his thugs to separate them. But there are even greater forces at work: Famine, War, Pestilence, Death… and Providence, a mysterious force, that intertwines destinies, even after death, and is about to bring about the birth of a new era. After the failed marriage, Renzo and Lucia’s paths diverge: he, after escaping arrest in Milan, finds refuge in Bergamo only to be captured by the Inquisition and taken to Venice as a prisoner; she, on the other hand, in the Monza convent, meets Gertrude, a woman of dark charm and full of secrets.

The book, which began in the 1600s with the burning at the stake of Giordano Bruno, ends in 1633 with the trial and abjuration of Galileo Galilei. A time in History when the future of mankind changed forever.

订婚

一个天使和一个恶魔缠斗了几个世纪。年轻的伦佐和露琪亚渴望实现他们的爱情梦想。这是对经典名著《约婚夫妇》大胆且富有创意的改写，充满了秘密与魔法。

几个世纪以来，天使穆米亚和恶魔贝利亚尔在善与恶之间展开了激烈的较量，斗得无所不用其极。此时，他们目睹哲学家乔尔达诺·布鲁诺被火刑处死后，希望能夺得他所写的那本传奇之书，这本书蕴藏着巨大的力量，却突然消失无踪。他们开始了疯狂地寻找，最终来到莱科镇，并与两个年轻人，伦佐和露琪亚的命运交织在一起。这对即将实现爱情梦想的约婚夫妇，逐渐变成天使和恶魔博弈的棋子，天使竭尽所能地帮助他们，而恶魔通过罗德里戈和他的手下，千方百计地组织这场婚礼。谁会赢得这场较量？谁又能率先夺得乔尔达诺·布鲁诺的那本传奇之书？贝佩·隆卡里为我们带来了一个全新版本的《约婚夫妇》，大胆而富有想象力。在这个版本中，除了我们在课堂上熟悉的经典人物，还加入了天使与恶魔的身影。他们在一个奇幻的时空中展开较量，争夺对人间的掌控，同时悄然介入了主人公的命运。