Editing Alessandro Manzoni (section)

==Family, death and legacy==
[[File:The Funeral Procession at Milan, Italy.jpg|thumb|left|Manzoni's funeral procession in Milan]]

The death of Manzoni's wife in 1833 was preceded and followed by those of several of his children, and of his mother. In the mid-1830s he attended the "Salotto Maffei", a [[salon (gathering)|salon]] in Milan hosted by [[Clara Maffei]], and in 1837 he married again, to Teresa Borri, widow of Count Stampa. Teresa also died before him, while of nine children born to him in his two marriages all but two pre-deceased him. In 1860 King [[Victor Emmanuel II]] named him a [[senator for life|senator]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://notes9.senato.it/Web/senregno.NSF/4bee8c11a5b4a95ec1256ffc00512823/f2f7825ad61d102dc1257069003186f0?OpenDocument|title=Scheda senatore MANZONI Alessandro|website=notes9.senato.it}}</ref> The death of his eldest son, Pier Luigi, on 28 April 1873, was the final blow which hastened his end. He was already weakened as he had fallen on 6 January while exiting the [[San Fedele, Milan|San Fedele church]], hitting his head on the steps, and he died after 5 months of cerebral [[meningitis]], a complication of the trauma. His funeral was celebrated in the [[Milan Cathedral]] with almost royal pomp.<ref>{{Cite web|title=LIFE OF MANZONI|url=https://www.casadelmanzoni.it/content/life-manzoni?language=en|url-status=live|website=www.casadelmanzoni.it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205121607/https://www.casadelmanzoni.it/content/life-manzoni?language=en|archive-date=5 December 2022}}</ref> His remains, after they lay in state for some days, were followed to the [[Cimitero Monumentale]] in Milan by a vast cortege, including the royal princes and all the great officers of state, but his noblest monument was [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]'', written to honour his memory. In modern times, he has been honored twice with a Google Doodle.

[[File:Alessandro Manzoni - foto.jpg | thumb | right | Photograph of Manzoni towards the end of his life]]
His novel ''Osservazioni sulla morale cattolica'' was quoted by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical on Christian Education ''Divini Illius Magistri'': <blockquote>"20. It is worthy of note how a layman, an excellent writer and at the same time a profound and conscientious thinker, has been able to understand well and express exactly this fundamental Catholic doctrine: 'The Church does not say that morality belongs purely, in the sense of exclusively, to her; but that it belongs wholly to her. She has never maintained that outside her fold and apart from her teaching, man cannot arrive at any moral truth; she has on the contrary more than once condemned this opinion because it has appeared under more forms than one. She does however say, has said, and will ever say, that because of her institution by Jesus Christ, because of the Holy Ghost sent her in His name by the Father, she alone possesses what she has had immediately from God and can never lose, the whole of moral truth, omnem veritatem, in which all individual moral truths are included, as well those which man may learn by the help of reason, as those which form part of revelation or which may be deduced from it'".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121929_divini-illius-magistri_en.html|title=Divini Illius Magistri (December 31, 1929) – PIUS XI|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref></blockquote>
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