Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2016 9) 1765-1772 ~ ~ ~ УДК 783.29 “Requiem” by Giuseppe Verdi and Alessandro Manzoni’s novel “The Betrothed”: Figurative and Dramatic Parallels Andrey Iu. <...> Sapsuev and Svetlana G. Voitkevich* Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts 22 Lenin Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia Received 26.04.2016, received in revised form 12.06.2016, accepted 19.07.2016 The paper is devoted to one of the most famous works by Giuseppe Verdi – “Requiem”. <...> The author traces the history of its creation, associated with the death of Alessandro Manzoni, the renowned writer of Risorgimento era, whose novel “The Betrothed” became a milestone in the history of Italian literature and made a huge impression on young G. Verdi. <...> In this connection, the authors of the paper for the first time ever in Russian musicology put forward and justify the idea that the Manzoni’s novel images are close to the Verdi’s requiem mass, by presenting analytical observations of literary and musical works. <...> Dramatic composition of the novel and Requiem is based on the interaction of several image lines: lyrical-psychological, heroic-patriotic and religious. <...> In addition, the historical parallels are found between the time of the novel, and the era when “the maestro of Italian revolution” lived. <...> The authors also explained the reasons for which in the 19th century it became possible for the related arts to penetrate into the spiritual composition. <...> Requiem as a genre has a special place in the history of music. <...> The earliest survived example of requiem was composed by the Flemish composer – Johannes Ockeghem (1470). <...> Being originally just a ritual genre, later requiem reaches people beyond the church and became “the genre of author expression” [Rush’evskaia, 2011, p. 184]. <...> Probably the first of © Siberian Federal University. <...> Strikingly this adherence showed itself in the era of Romanticism, at the verge of which there appeared a “specific type of man – homo aestheticus” [Nikonova, 2004, p. 58], consequently many genres including those cult ones underwent radical rethinking. <...> Sapsuev, Svetlana G. Voitkevich. “Requiem” by Giuseppe Verdi and Alessandro Manzoni’s novel… lly just a ritual genre, later requiem reaches people beyond the “the genre of author expression” [Rush’evskaia, 2011, p. 184]. of such requiems in music <...>