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Ambientato in Sicilia in periodo risorgimentale e considerato uno dei capolavori di Verga, "Mastro-don Gesualdo", pubblicato nel 1889, narra la vicenda di Gesualdo Motta, che riesce ad elevarsi dalla posizione di umile manovale a quella di ricco proprietario terriero.

È il 1939, sono trascorsi cinque anni da quando l’esistenza di Ricciardi è stata improvvisamente sconvolta. Fra i cespugli di un boschetto vengono ritrovati i cadaveri di due giovani, stavano facendo l’amore e qualcuno li ha brutalmente uccisi. Le ragioni dell’omicidio appaiono subito oscure; dietro il crimine si affaccia il fantasma della politica.

An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." Fifty years...

"Desde una princesa real, a la hija de un pescador, ¡oh!, ha recorrido mi amor toda la escala social" - Don Juan Tenorio ¿Desea convertirse en un maestro de la seducción y conquistar el amor y el deseo de las mujeres? ¿Quiere revolucionar su vida sexual a niveles nunca antes imaginados? Este libro es para usted. Desde las pinturas clásicas, hasta las novelas contemporáneas, la seducción se presenta como el arte y la virtud de generar deseo o excitación en las mujeres (o a quien sea que se busque como compañero sexual). Este libro está dirigido al lector que desea adquirir una ...

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all. In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.

¡Lo que nunca antes te enseñaron sobre el amor! Todos necesitamos amar y ser amados, pero nadie nos enseña cómo manejar nuestras emociones y sentimientos cuando el amor aparece en nuestras vidas. Esta falta de conocimiento nos lleva, muchas veces, a sufrir innecesariamente, a malentendidos y a errores que podrían haberse evitado con una mejor comprensión de lo que realmente significa amar. "El Arte de Amar para Hombres" no es un libro más sobre relaciones. Aquí aprenderás los principios fundamentales del amor y cómo este sentimiento impacta a los hombres de manera única. Su ...

Commissario Ricciardi is the undisputed wizard of Neapolitan crime scenes. He solves every crime with an uncanny swiftness that leaves his colleagues dumbfounded. Indeed, there are those who think his abilities are the work of the devil, an unnatural and ungodly gift to be exorcised. And maybe they're right. Ricciardi sees the dead; he sees and hears the final moments in the lives of those who have suffered violent deaths. It may be a talent, or it may be a curse, but it is nonetheless a kind of black magic.

The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates...

Born to Palestinian refugees, Kassem Eid grew up in the small town of Moadamiya on the outskirts of the ancient city of Damascus. The streets that he and his many siblings played on were perfumed with jasmine. A precocious child, he excelled at school and had a natural gift for languages. But it didn't take long for Kassem to realise that he was treated differently at school because of his family's resistance to the brutal government regime.

Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people.

Giovanni Boccaccio può essere considerato insieme con Dante e Petrarca, il più importante scrittore del XIV secolo sia in Italia che in tutta Europa...

A baby is left abandoned beside a dumpster. A young Ukranian maid fights the torrents of greed and frustration with the world around her. Small animals begin to disappear off the streets. The task of solving these mysteries is entrusted to a team of policemen in which few believe: the Bastards of Pizzofalcone. Complete with stirrings in the city’s criminal underbelly and a fight against a seemingly inhuman evil, this novel is sure to delight fans of de Giovanni’s previous works.

Este audiolibro es una herramienta ideal para hispanohablantes que desean aprender italiano de manera inmersiva y entretenida. A través de una colección de cuentos cortos, los oyentes pueden sumergirse en el idioma mientras disfrutan de historias cautivadoras sobre amistad, aventura, magia y vida cotidiana. Cada relato presenta vocabulario clave y estructuras gramaticales en un contexto natural y accesible. Los cuentos están narrados en italiano, seguidos de su traducción al español, permitiendo a los estudiantes comparar ambos idiomas y reforzar su comprensión.

Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse pronounced in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance". Pico, who belonged to the family that had long dwelt in the Castle of Mirandola, left his share of the ancestral principality to his two brothers to devote himself wholly to study. In his fourteenth year, he went to Bologna to study canon law and fit himself for the ecclesiastical career. Repelled by the purely positive science of law, he devoted himself ...

Nel villaggio dietro la Collina Secca, dentro la Casa Strana, vive da sempre la vecchia Nonnamà, che mentre sbuccia frutta e verdure tiene i bambini di tutti, e racconta loro le storie più belle, quelle che sono anche un po’ vere ma non si sa mai fino a quanto. E così Nonnamà racconta la storia di Gnazio, che tanto tanto tempo fa viveva in quel villaggio e amava la terra e le piante, ma che poi era dovuto partire oltre il mare, ed era stato via così tanto che quando era tornato era forse troppo vecchio per avere una moglie, ma poi ne aveva trovata una, Maruzza.

Would you like to start a business from home? Would you like to start creating a passive income but don't know where to start? Then, this audiobook is for you. Inside, you will find extremely useful information, both for those who are beginners and for those who want to refine techniques already known.

Un piccolo aeroplano turistico diretto in Sardegna si schianta nel mar Tirreno con a bordo diverse persone. Tra loro, un noto imprenditore che ha rilasciato la sua ultima intervista poco prima del decollo, con il vociare degli altri passeggeri sullo sfondo, tutti tranquilli e sorridenti, ignari dell'imminente tragedia. Quando l'agente dei Servizi in pensione Andrea Catapano sente le voci delle vittime - lui che non vede ma sa ascoltare meglio di chiunque altro - un ricordo nitido riaffiora.

A heinous double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and the rest of the motley collection of cops known as the “bastards” of the Pizzofalcone precinct against their superiors, the press, and the local political hierarchy. Only by bringing the killer to justice can they save their reputations and the department.

Lojacono e i Bastardi si trovano a indagare su un omicidio che non ha alcuna spiegazione evidente: una ragazza viene trovata nuda in una grotta, morta con una coltellata al cuore. Il suo abito da sposa galleggia sull'acqua poco distante dal corpo. I poliziotti di Pizzofalcone ce la metteranno tutta per risolvere il mistero e rendere giustizia a quella povera donna uccisa barbaramente alla vigilia di un giorno così importante.