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#3 Could perhaps be "Die Verlobten" (I Promessi Sposi)(= (but no "r" seems to have been written -> mistake?) meaning "the betrothed" or "The fiancés" . According to Wikipedia, this was a book, a historic novel, from Alessandro Manzoni, published in 1842 which was translated to the German language many times and republished in 1923. A quick summary overview of this article put this book to an equal level as books from Goethe.

see:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Promessi_Sposi and
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Manzoni