Project Gutenberg 2025-10-09 Public domain in the USA. 250 Tronconi, Cesare 1842 1890 Madri.... per ridere : $b romanzo $aMilano :$bGalli e Omodei, $c1877. Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "Madri.... per ridere : romanzo" by Cesare Tronconi is a novel written in the late 19th century. It appears to be a caustic social satire about hypocrisy, respectability, and the making of “mothers” and women shaped by appearances rather than virtue. The story centers on Maddalena, a striking and increasingly calculating young woman from a modest family, whose transformation is catalyzed by a seductive neighbor, Severina, and a secret attraction to Severina’s brother. Expect a sharp critique of bourgeois morals, the education of girls, and the gap between public piety and private appetites. The opening of the work moves from a sardonic funeral scene—where mourners shun two ominous women—to a vehement letter that brands Maddalena “the Evil,” then rewinds to her origins. We meet her parents, the punctilious ex-dogana clerk Ildebrando and the devout, simple Caterina; her birth is framed by superstitious omens, and her childhood is marked by precocious will, emotional opacity, and social ostracism at a snobbish school. As an adolescent she grows restless and is drawn to Severina, a poised “widow” whose perfumed, sensuous apartment and conversation school Maddalena in toilette, allure, and worldly cynicism. Under this influence, she refashions herself, spurns a safe suitor, and quietly cultivates a flirtation with Severina’s brother, while the narration sketches the type of idle, debt-driven beaux who live off charm—hinting at the kind of man she may be courting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20241224091216tronconi 1877 IT it Italian fiction -- 19th century PQ Text 483835 2025-11-30T10:19:49.120144 text/html 459018 2025-10-09T12:20:49 text/html 467394 2025-11-30T10:19:57.523076 application/epub+zip 462804 2025-11-30T10:19:50.929083 application/epub+zip 285063 2025-11-30T10:19:49.984084 application/epub+zip 436388 2025-11-30T10:20:02.135062 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 401267 2025-11-30T10:19:56.662028 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 411645 2025-11-30T10:19:47.414118 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 391748 2025-10-09T12:20:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15000 2025-11-30T10:20:02.283006 application/rdf+xml 7507 2025-11-30T10:19:50.269062 image/jpeg 2050 2025-11-30T10:19:50.124085 image/jpeg 380270 2025-11-30T10:19:49.164104 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