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Luigi Pirandello:
Signora Speranza

(
Novella)

Pirandello's humor, though at bottom sad and almost pessimistic, is not of a
quiet sort. To him man appears as a creature more miserable than
grotesque, eternally made sport of by the irony of fate.

Such is the philosophy in Signora Speranza, one of the most characteristic of his novellas.

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Gabriele D'Annunzio:
The Child of Pleasure

(Classic
Italian Novel)

The Child of Pleasure is a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio, written in 1888 and published in 1889. Just as The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo had popularized the Romantic Movement and sensibility a century earlier, The Child of Pleasure and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800s to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence.

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