But Alessandro Manzoni is not only a skilful painter of individual portraits, he excels also in grand historical representations.
When he represents an entire people rebelling against hunger, or vanquished by disease and death, we deeply feel the horror of the picture, at the same time that an occasional smile is elic.
In that of the plague at Milan, and the famine preceding it, his manner becomes bolder, his touch more free and majestic, without, however, losing any of its exquisite delicacy.
But Alessandro Manzoni is not only a skilful painter of individual portraits, he excels also in grand historical representations