{"date":"March 13","id":"03-13","intro":["Manzoni has pictured in this thrilling romance of the seventeenth century nobility, the pompous and sporting life of those good old days when nobles lived sumptuously in spacious castles surrounded by vast estates."],"minutes":29,"readings":[{"author":"Alessandro Manzoni","end":332,"start":318,"volume":21,"work":"I Promessi Sposi"}],"slug":"march-13","status":"proofread","title":"Before Nobility Ran Tea Rooms","url":"/harvard-classics/march-13/","words":5727}