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- English
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Little Novels of Italy
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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Not easily would you have found a girl more winning in a tender sort than Giovanna Scarpa of Verona at one and twenty, fair-haired and flushed, delicately shaped, tall and pliant, as she then was. She had to suffer her hours of ill report, but passes for near a saint now, in consequence of certain miracles and theophanies done on her account, which it is my business to declare; before those she was considered (if at all) as a girl who would certainly have been married three years ago if dowries had not been of moment in the matter. In a city of maids as pretty as they are modest - which no one will deny Verona to be - there may have been some whose charms in either kind were equal to hers, while their estate was better in accord; but the speculation is idle. Giovanna, flower in the face as she was, fit to be nosegay on any hearth, posy for any man's breast, sprang in a very lowly soil. Like a blossoming reed she shot up to her inches by Adige, and one forgot the muddy bed wondering at the slim grace of the shaft with its crown of yellow atop
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Table of contents
- MADONNA OF THE PEACH-TREE
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- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- IPPOLITA IN THE HILLS
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- THE DUCHESS OF NONA
- I
- II
- III
- IV
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- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- MESSER CINO AND THE LIVE COAL
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE JUDGMENT OF BORSO
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- Copyright