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The New Life (La vita nuova)

Read by Mary J

Dante Alighieri

One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

La Vita Nuova

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Dante Alighieri

In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

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Giovanni Verga

The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…

Home, 10th April, 1881

In The Stark Munro Letters

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…

Biographical Sketch, part 1

In Essays and Dialogues

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Giacomo Leopardi

"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

Il Libretto Rosso

In Novelle per un Anno, vol. 12: Il Viaggio

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Luigi Pirandello

Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere del…