Glenn Pierce Manzoni and the Aesthetics of the Lombard "Seicento": Art Assimilated into the Narrative of "I promessi sposi". Bucknell University Press, 1998. First edition. 0838753671 253 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. "Aligning these historical treatises with what little Manzoni said about art in his critical treatises, justifies a methodology that combines elements of ekphrasis and a comparison of the variants from the first to the final version of the novel. Such methodology allows us to identify how both dramatic and pictorial influences common in seventeenth-century Lombard art manifest themselves in Manzoni's narrative constructs."