Version restored from a black and white positive print conserved by the Filmoteca Española.
“[…] It was inevitable that Promessi Sposi would be made into a film. In 1908 the Comerio company made the first of the five versions that would appear (‘In principio fuit traductio’ – G.P. Brunetta dixit, in Sperduti nel buio, Bologna, Cappelli, 1991, p.15). In the same 1908, our dear Fraticello got drunk in order to put on the habit of the Boccaccio version of a monk – that is, as they say, ‘lincentious’, or at least such is the attempt – and dreams of making trouble or at least a pastiche, that comes off as a moderate and amusing Roman catholic version of the Republican French Temptations of Flaubert and Méliès (1898-99)”.
(Michele Canosa in Cinegrafie, n.7)