The series Le Novelle della Cipolla [The Onion’s Tales] is being enriched with another masterpiece of Italian literature: The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni. The text has been adapted and illustrated to make it more approachable and attractive, but it maintains the lively and colourful language of Manzoni’s work. A nimble little volume that banishes tedium, entertains, and moves, to rediscover a great novel often not much appreciated on the school benches.