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The Heart Of A Boy
(Edmondo de Amicis)

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Cuore

The Heart of a Boy

Edmondo de Amicis





Cuore is the fictional diary of a young boy's life in a

Turin school. Written by a former professional soldier
in

the aftermath of the Italian war for independence and
the

Unification of Italy in 1870, the book was intended to

foster an appreciation of national identity. It has been

required reading for generations of Italians to the
present

day, has been reprinted in more than five hundred
editions

and translated into twenty-five languages.



The narrator, Enrico, writes vividly of life in the

classroom and in the local streets, portraying the

achievements and setbacks, pleasures and pains of
growing up

in a late nineteenth-century Italian community. The

essentially simple language of the child provides
insights

into family life and education in a provincial town. His

journals are interspersed with letters from his parents

encouraging him to be industrious, kind,

honest, loyal and respectful. These exhortations are

reinforced by stories about children whose selfless
deeds

demonstrate the patriotism, sense of duty and love of
family

to which the young Italian citizen should aspire.



Cuore has been adapted into almost every conceivable
medium,

including films, major television series, radio
adaptations,

plays and comic books. It has even become a cult anime
film

in Japan. From Henry Miller, who wrote a glowing
monograph

on the book, to world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli, who

composed a song about it, this account of childhood has

inspired many and continues to do so to this day.



?A moving account of childhood.? ? Le Monde

?An Italian classic.? ? Book Report

?Oh, the power, the beauty, the fervour and the pathos
of

that book!?

? Charles Warren Stoddard



EDMONDO DE AMICIS was born in Piedmont in 1846, at a
time

when Italy lay dismembered. A soldier by profession, he

spent much of his youth fighting for a united Italy. An

admirer of the writer Alessandro Manzoni,

who considered that Florentine should be the standard

Italian language, he wrote only in Florentine Italian.
With

the huge success of Cuore he achieved his goal of having
had

? through his novel?s central place on the school
syllabus?

a formative influence on the written language of modern

Italy



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