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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…

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…

Ch. XIV: Concluding Remarks and Summary, Part 1

In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

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Charles Darwin

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects …

Epistola IV: To the Marquis Moroello Malaspina, circa 1309

In Epistolae, the letters of Dante

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Dante Alighieri

This volume contains the thirteen letters of the poet Dante Alighieri translated from their original Latin, including the famous and controv…

Chapter XIV

In Mary: A Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Eliza, Mary's mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself, and favours Mary's brother. She neglects her daughter, w…