![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her conversion profoundly influenced her husband. She came from a Calvinist family, but in 1810 she became a Roman Catholic. In 1808, Manzoni married Henriette Blondel, daughter of a Genevese banker. In 1806–1807, while at Auteuil, he first appeared before the public as a poet, with two works, one entitled Urania, in the classical style, of which he became later the most conspicuous adversary, the other an elegy in blank verse, on the death of Count Carlo Imbonati, from whom, through his mother, he inherited considerable property, including the villa of Brusuglio, thenceforth his principal residence. There too he imbibed the anti-Catholic creed of Voltairianism. He was even supposed to marry the daughter of Antoine Destutt de Tracy. At Auteuil, he developed a lifelong interest in liberalism. Upon the death of his father in 1807, he joined the freethinking household of his mother at Auteuil, and spent two years mixing with the literary set of the so-called " ideologues", philosophers of the 18th-century school, among whom he made many friends, notably Claude Charles Fauriel. At fifteen, however, he developed a passion for poetry and wrote two sonnets of considerable merit. ![]() Manzoni was a slow developer, and at the various colleges he attended he was considered a dunce. ![]()
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