Il Novellino, the Hundred Old Tales

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Il Novellino, the Hundred Old Tales

collection of tales

Also known as: “Il novellino”, “Le ciento novelle antike”

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Italian literature

In Italian literature: Prose
…until 1525, with the title Le ciento novelle antike [“A Hundred Old Tales”; Eng. trans. Il Novellino: The Hundred Old Tales]). The masterpiece of 13th-century prose is Dante’s Vita nuova. Though not yet completely at ease in vernacular prose, Dante combined simplicity with great delicacy and a poetic power that…
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