Reading comprehension 9
Exercise
1
Ascolta e leggi il brano. Scegli la risposta corretta (A-C) per le domande 1-3. Poi scrivi le risposte alle domande 4-8.
Solution
- C) 1789
- B) At Lake Geneva
- B) Shelley
- Italy was popular with the Romantics because of its landscape, architecture, and links to Roman civilization.
- The years 1818 to 1822 were unhappy for the Shelleys because two of their children died as babies, and Mary was often ill during that period.
- Keats and Shelley's tombs are in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
- Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Hayez
- Manzoni's "The Betrothed" (I Promessi Sposi), Verdi's operas like "La Traviata" and "Rigoletto," Hayez's painting "The Kiss.