Amore e ginnastica

Name: Amore e ginnastica
Author: Edmondo de Amicis

About the author

Italian author best known for Heart (Cuore), one of the most widely read Italian books of the 19th century. This sentimental tale of a schoolboy's year in Turin was used to inculcate nationalist and civic values across Italy.

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