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This haunting watercolor belongs to the artist’s most ambitious undertaking as a draftsman: a set of innovative illustrations for a deluxe 1900 edition of Alessandro Manzoni’s historical novel <I>I promessi sposi </I>(The Betrothed). Part of the story takes place in Milan during the plague of 1630. Here, Previati illustrates a passage in which Manzoni describes the grim role of the hooded <I>monatti</I>, or corpse carriers, who bore plague victims to the isolated hospital or an open grave.<?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" /><o:p></o:p></P>\r\n<P>&nbsp;</P>","remarks":"Italian Drawings "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Ulrico Hoepli, Milan; Gallini collection, Milan; Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline, Massachusetts; purchased by the Art Museum, 2007. (See reference Bib. 5429);","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"The bubonic plague typically claimed its victims’ lives within three days. The high mortality rate of the disease led Italian cities to employ <em>monatti</em>, or corpse carriers, who went from home to home to remove the bodies of the deceased. Previati’s watercolor was printed as an illustration to the 1900 edition of Alessandro Manzoni’s historical novel <em>I promessi sposi</em> (<em>The Betrothed</em>), first published in 1827. Set in seventeenth-century Milan, this classic romance includes detailed descriptions of the famine and the plague of 1630. In this scene, the ghostlike <em>monatti </em>descend a flight of stairs in a constricted alleyway, their bodies weighed down by the naked corpse casting a foreboding shadow.","remarks":"States of Health"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This haunting image is one of more than 283 drawings by Previati that were printed as illustrations in the 1900 edition of Alessandro Manzoni’s historical novel <em>I promessi sposi</em> (The Betrothed), first published in 1821–27. Set in seventeenth-century Milan, this classic of Italian literature<br>focuses on the romance of two Lombard peasants, Renzo and Lucia, but also includes detailed descriptions of famine and the plague of 1630, based on the author’s extensive research. Previati’s watercolor features two ghostlike <em>monatti </em>(corpse carriers) descending a flight of stairs in a constricted alleyway, their frames weighed down by the naked body, which casts a foreboding shadow.","remarks":"K3 Rotation July 2018 (The Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Italy) "}],"datebegin":1890,"sortnumber":"2007   16","published_date":"2026-04-07 02:00:27.775941","objectid":52856,"dimensions":"23.2 x 32.2 cm (9 1/8 x 12 11/16 in.)\r\nframe: 41.6 x 54.3 x 2.9 cm (16 3/8 x 21 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.)","on_view":false}