"Non sempre ciò che vien dopo è progresso."
— Alessandro Manzoni

January 1, 1970

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What comes after is not always progress. — "Del romanzo storico" (1850), in Andrea Tagliapietra (ed.) La storia e l'invenzione (Milano: Gallone, 1997) p. 64; Sandra Bermann (trans.) On the Historical Novel (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984) p. 113