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Bruno Caruso - Alessandro Manzoni - Bruno Caruso - Alessandro Manzoni (Palermo 1927 - Roma 2018) - The history of the Column of Infamy in the images of Bruno Caruso, 1986. Hardboard folder containing 12 original ink drawings by Bruno Caruso for a planned volume on Alessandro Manzoni's ”The Story of the Infamous Column .” The first drawing, with the title, is made using a reused sheet of antique 17th-century paper, 282 x 207 mm. The other eleven are mounted on Fabriano cardboard and are large in size, 400 x 275 mm. Titles : Caterina Rosa; the year 1630, the plague, suspicion, the infamous column; Ottavia Bono; the plague in Milan; the plague in the ”The Story of the Infamous Column”; the barber Giangiacomo Mora; son of the barber Giangiacomo Mora; a judge in the ”The Story of the Infamous Column”; Antonio Luccialotti; Guglielmo Piazza ”At the rope”; execution of the sentence. Several drawings are made on reused sheets of antique paper.