Somaschi Fathers.
wikiwikiup on Aug 28, 2016 The Somascan Fathers are a charitable religious congregation of priests and brothers, founded in Italy in the 16th century by Saint Jerome Emiliani and named after the mother-house at Somasca.They are often called Somascans for short.Their formal name is Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha, abbreviated as C.R.S.after members' names.
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873)[2] was an Italian poet and novelist.[3] He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.[4] The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message[4] and because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language.[5]wikipedia
Alessandro Manzoni spend his childhood and early youth, until 1801, in the colleges of Somaschi Fathers (first in Merate, then in Lugano) and Barnabiti (Milan), where he received a classical education