Menéndez Pelayo and Manzoni

Abstract

In this article, the study by Menéndez Pelayo about the Italian writer Manzoni is presented. The Cantabrian scholar has a great interest in this figure and his work. Manzoni’s work highlights: the poetic beginnings of the. Lombard, the importance of the  Himnos sacros and the perfection of Pentecostés y La Pasión. Aside from aesthetic and generic considerations, Menéndez Pelayo also tracks similarities between Hispanic and Lombard nineteenth-century authors to deepen his studies. Pelayo studied Manzoni as a lyrical poet, as a dramatic author, as a novelist and as a critic, so he defends and endorses the relevance of Manzoni in the aesthetic horizon of the nineteenth century.