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By: Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908)

Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis (Italian) Cuore

ENGLISH: Heart (Italian: Cuore) was a children’s novel written by Italian author Edmondo De Amicis. It is set during the Italian unification, and includes several patriotic themes. It was issued by Treves on October 17, 1886, the first day of school in Italy, and rose to immediate success. The novel is written in a diary form as told by Enrico Bottini, a 10-year old primary school student in Italy with an upper class background who is surrounded by classmates of working class origin. The entire chronological setting corresponds to the third-grade season...

Ricordi di Parigi by Edmondo De Amicis (Italian) Ricordi di Parigi

Formatosi all’Accademia militare di Modena fu sempre forte in lui lo spirito patriottico, che seppe ben utilizzare come elemento di critica nella descrizione di altre città come Parigi.Affascinato da “quest’immensa rete dorata” seppe darne una descrizione accurata, dapprima cogli occhi storditi di un semplice turista poi con la consapevolezza quasi di un parigino. E’ minuzioso nel descrivere le sue bellezze ed altrettanto nel rilevarne le tentazioni alle quali è impossibile resistere...

Book cover (Italian) Ricordi di Londra
Book cover Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal
Book cover (Italian) Marocco
Book cover (Italian) Spagna
Book cover (Italian) Olanda
Book cover (Italian) Speranze e glorie; Le tre capitali: Torino, Firenze, Roma
Book cover Holland, v. 1 (of 2)

By: Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908)

Book cover Heart: a Schoolboy's Journal

Little Enrico Bottini is a ten year-old third grade student in Italy who keeps a diary for one whole school year. It records the general problems, excitements, and successes any third grader might deal with, all explained from Enrico's point of view. Through the course of this one year, we watch Enrico learn and grow a little, and hopefully we can learn from his experiences, too. Edmondo de Amici's 1886 book Cuore was an immediate huge success when it was published, and while school rooms have changed dramatically in the century and a half since the book was first published within Italy and elsewhere, the attraction of this book has hardly diminished, and it is still immensely popular...

Book cover (Italian) Ricordi di Londra, seguiti da Un' escursione nei quartieri poveri di Londra

Questa del 1874 è la seconda edizione del volume XXII della Biblioteca di Viaggi pubblicata dai Fratelli Treves. Gli editori vi riunirono in ordine cronologico inverso le osservazioni e impressioni di due visitatori europei della metropoli londinese dell’epoca. Londra era il centro del potere economico e coloniale britannico e di quel sistema volatile che trasportava e trasformava merci e persone su scala mondiale; le differenze socio-economiche e di benessere che la caratterizzavano erano estreme...


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