Cuore The Heart of a Boy

by de Amicis, Edmondo

• ISBN13: 9780720612325
• ISBN10: 0720612322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Summary

Required reading in Italian schools since 1886, Cuore is the most read classic in the country. Presented in the form of a diary, its subject is a young boy's life in Turin following Unification in 1870. The narrator, Enrico, writes vividly of school

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

October
The first day of school	13	(1)
Our teacher	14	(1)
An accident	15	(2)
The boy from Calabria	17	(1)
My class-mates	18	(2)
A noble act	20	(1)
My teacher in 1A	21	(2)
In an attic	23	(2)
School	24	(1)
THE LITTLE PADUAN PATRIOT	25	(21)
November
The chimney-sweep	28	(2)
All Souls' Day	29	(1)
My friend Garrone	30	(2)
The coalman and the gentleman	32	(1)
My young brother's teacher	33	(3)
My mother	35	(1)
My school-friend Coretti	36	(3)
The headmaster	39	(2)
The soldiers	41	(2)
Nelli's protector	43	(1)
Top of the class	44	(2)
THE LITTLE LOMBARD SENTRY	46	(17)
The poor	50	(2)
December
The dealer	52	(1)
Vanity	53	(2)
The first fall of snow	55	(1)
The little bricklayer	56	(2)
A snowball	58	(2)
The mistresses	60	(1)
A visit to the injured man	61	(2)
THE LITTLE FLORENTINE SCRIBE	63	(18)
Will-power	69	(3)
Gratitude	70	(2)
January
The supply teacher	72	(1)
Stardi's library	73	(1)
The blacksmith's son	74	(2)
A happy afternoon	76	(2)
The funeral of Victor Emmanuel	78	(1)
Franti is put out of the class-room	79	(2)
THE SARDINIAN DRUMMER-BOY	81	(23)
Love of your native land	87	(2)
Envy	89	(1)
Franti's mother	90	(4)
Hope	92	(2)
February
A well-merited medal	94	(2)
Good intentions	96	(1)
The little engine	97	(2)
Arrogance	99	(1)
Injured at work	100	(1)
The prisoner	101	(3)
PAPA'S NURSE	104	(40)
The smithy	111	(2)
The little clown	113	(3)
The last day of carnival	116	(3)
The blind children	119	(5)
The sick teacher	124	(4)
The street	126	(2)
March
Night-school	128	(1)
The fight	129	(2)
The boys' families	131	(1)
Number 78	132	(2)
The death of a child	134	(1)
On the eve of 14th March	135	(2)
Prize-giving	137	(4)
A quarrel	141	(3)
From my sister	143	(1)
THE SPIRIT OF THE ROMAGNA	144	(35)
The little bricklayer is very ill	150	(4)
Count Cavour	152	(2)
April
Spring	154	(1)
King Umberto	155	(4)
The children's home	159	(3)
Physical training	162	(3)
My father's teacher	165	(8)
Convalescence	173	(3)
Working-class friends	175	(1)
Garrone's mother	176	(1)
Giuseppe Mazzini	177	(2)
CIVIL VALOUR	179	(10)
May
The disabled children	183	(2)
Making sacrifices	185	(1)
The fire	186	(3)
FROM THE APENNINES TO THE ANDES	189	(52)
Summer	216	(3)
Poetry	217	(2)
The deaf and dumb girl	219	(8)
June
Garibaldi	226	(1)
The army	227	(3)
Italy	229	(1)
Thirty-two degrees	230	(3)
My father	231	(2)
In the country	233	(2)
Night-school prize-giving	235	(2)
The death of my teacher	237	(2)
Thanks	239	(2)
SHIPWRECK	241
July
The last page by my mother	246	(1)
The examinations	247	(2)
The last examination	249	(2)
Goodbye	251