This blog is meant to accompany, both beforehand and after it is held, the international conference entitled “The Betrothed by Manzoni: transpositions, parodies and deformations from the 19th century to the present times”, which will take place at the Sorbonne University and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Paris, and will be sponsored by the Centro Nazionale di Studi Manzoniani of Milan. This conference, organized at the initiative of ELCI (Equipe Littérature et Culture Italiennes, the Sorbonne Italian literature and Culture research team), aims at bringing together both junior and senior researchers, from different countries to discuss the reworks, adaptations and intersemiotic and cultural transfers - often times irreverent - which have characterized the reception of The Betrothed.