Project Gutenberg 2025-03-31 Public domain in the USA. 96 Martini, Ferdinando 1841 1928 Racconti $aMilano :$bTreves, $c1888. L'oriolo -- Peccato e penitenza -- Gite autunnali -- La Marchesa. Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense - Milano) "Racconti" by Ferdinando Martini is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The book features stories set among the Italian aristocracy and bourgeoisie, often centering on familial expectations, marriages, and the complexities of social life. The likely topics include the emotional struggles of well-born women, shifting social norms, and the subtle tragedies woven into the fabric of respectable society. Main characters feature strong-willed women like Adriana and figures from their circles, whose fates and emotions are shaped as much by custom as by personal desire. The opening of "Racconti" presents the story "L’oriolo", focusing on Adriana di Roccamare, a beautiful, wealthy, and independent-minded woman whose late marriage is considered a social oddity. Through nuanced family conversations and social observations, we see Adriana's reluctance to marry for convention's sake and her eventual pragmatic proposal to the amiable but older Marchese Gaudenzi. Subsequent segments follow Adriana's life after marriage, revealing emotional reserve, melancholy, and hints of unrealized love, especially in her poignant encounter with the unfulfilled Sismondi. The narrative moves fluidly between letters, dialogue, and close interior moments, gradually exposing how societal expectations weigh on personal happiness. The next story, "Peccato e Penitenza," transitions to a group of friends stranded in a Swiss mountain inn, introducing new characters and foreshadowing another tale of inner turmoil beneath polite exteriors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.braidense.it/dire/raccontimartini.pdf 20240401042146martini 1888 IT Reading ease score: 53.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. it Italian fiction -- 19th century PQ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Novels 612181 2025-07-30T05:10:05.350093 text/html 586817 2025-03-31T13:30:05 text/html 500782 2025-07-30T05:10:15.210017 application/epub+zip 504689 2025-07-30T05:10:07.615086 application/epub+zip 351514 2025-07-30T05:10:06.319095 application/epub+zip 1116540 2025-07-30T05:10:20.523050 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1085108 2025-07-30T05:10:14.077062 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 548757 2025-07-30T05:10:03.556109 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 528927 2025-03-31T13:30:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16122 2025-07-30T05:10:20.685019 application/rdf+xml 16787 2025-07-30T05:10:06.672085 image/jpeg 2623 2025-07-30T05:10:06.492079 image/jpeg 1184906 2025-07-30T05:10:05.410152 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia