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Rustic Chivalry

In 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…

Chapter XI, Part 1

In The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I

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Xueqin Cao

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…

Il Vitalizio (seconda parte)

In Novelle per un Anno, vol. 10: Il Vecchio Dio

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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…

05 - Book third, The Story of the Seven Years' Wandering, part 1

In The Aeneid, prose translation

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Virgil

The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas,…

Vittore Scarpaccia (Carpaccio) and other Venetian and Lombard painters

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 4

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

17 - Book 17, Chapters 40-47:Methods of irrigation; remarkable facts connected …

In The Natural History Volume 4

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Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

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