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Storie da ridere.... e da piangere

By Ercole Luigi Morselli

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Cover: Un alto en la pulpería (c. 1860) by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823–1870) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Eight tales that are comic and sad at once, opening in a ramshackle tavern on the Buenos Aires waterfront full of men who have lost pieces of themselves. Morselli's characters include hopeful inventors, lodgers, performers and dreamers, drawn with a playwright's ear for dialogue.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: L'osteria Degli Scampoli
  2. 2: L'elefante
  3. 3: La Befana di Baciccia
  4. 4: «Italien, Liebe, Blut...!»
  5. 5: L'aeroplano
  6. 6: La Donna-Ragno
  7. 7: La Vita È Allegra!
  8. 8: Il Cavalier Allegoria