Actors come to the theater for a rehearsal. The prime minister is unhappy that he needs to put on a cook hat during the play. The director exclaims in his hearts: “... what do you want from me if France has long ceased to supply us with good comedies and we are forced to stage comedies of this Pirandello, whom we understand ...

The action takes place in Florence. The plot is the conversation of Kallimako with his servant Shiro, turned, in fact, to the audience. The young man explains why he returned to his hometown from Paris, where he was taken at the age of ten. In a friendly company, the French and Italians started a dispute, whose women are more beautiful....

: A boy with an unusual voice finds himself in a country where a pirate seized power, forcing everyone to lie. With the help of a magical voice, the boy destroys the lie, and truth reigns in the country. In a small Italian village, a boy is born Gelsomino, with an incredibly loud voice, from which ...

The bishop of the small town of Aodi, after the death of a relative, the Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, becomes one of the contenders for the ducal throne. However, the vicissitudes of turbulent times and the hatred of enemies force him to leave Milan and settle in his episcopal residence in Lodi; but there ...

In the introduction to his book, the author admits that he wrote it, following "the example of the excellent Florentine poet, Messer Giovanni Boccaccio." “I, the Florentine Franco Sacketgi, a man of ignorance and rude, set out to write the book you are offering, collecting in it stories about all those extraordinary ...

This is a love story told by a heroine named Fiametta, addressed primarily to women in love who have a young lady looking for sympathy and understanding. The beautiful Fiametta, whose beauty captivated everyone, spent her life in a continuous celebration; loving spouse, wealth, honor and respect ...

At the center of the poetic narrative is the touching love story of the shepherd and hunter Afriko and the nymph Menzola. We learn that in immemorial times in Fiesole, women especially honored the goddess Diana, who patronized chastity. Many parents after the birth of children, who are vowed and who ...

: Ancient Rome. The gladiator Spartacus raises the slaves to fight for freedom and against the Roman authorities, but dies, never reaching the cherished goal. November 10, 78 BC e. the streets of Rome were crowded with people - everyone hurried to the Great Circus. Three-day holiday hosted by Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius ...

The action takes place at an indefinite time, most reminiscent of the beginning of our century, and the unknown state depicted on its pages is very similar to Italy. This is a novel about time eating life. The irreversibility of time is the fateful destiny of man, night is the highest point of tragic tension ...

In 1348, family and friendship ties broke up, the servants refused to serve the masters, they did not bury the dead, but dumped them in holes dug in church cemeteries. When the city was almost empty, seven young women met in the church of Santa Maria Novella after the Divine Liturgy, “interconnected ...

The action takes place in post-war Italy, in a small Sicilian town. Apothecary Manno receives an anonymous letter, where he is threatened with death, without going into an explanation of the reasons. Friends of the pharmacist - don Luigi Corvaya, notary Pecorilla, teacher Laurana, attorney Rosello, Dr. Rosho - consider anonymous ...

Hell Halfway through life, I - Dante - got lost in a dense forest. Scary wild animals around - allegories of vices; nowhere to go. And here is a ghost, which turned out to be the shadow of my beloved ancient Roman poet Virgil. I ask him for help. He promises to lead me away from here on a journey through the underworld, with ...

The action of the first "scientist" comedy in Italy takes place on the island of Metellino, in indefinite "antique" times. In a poetic prologue it is declared that modern authors can well compete with the ancients in mastery, although the Italian language is inferior in Greek to Latin and harmonious. Play ...

The Lord Almighty from his heavenly throne turned his all-seeing gaze to Syria, where the camp of the crusader army stood. For the sixth year, the soldiers of Christ have been fighting in the East, many cities and kingdoms have submitted to them, but the Holy City of Jerusalem was still the stronghold of the infidels. Reading in human ...

David comes at night to the camp of the Israelites in Helvah. He is forced to hide from King Saul, to whom he has filial feelings. Saul used to love him, he himself chose David as his wife for Melkhola’s beloved daughter. “But the ransom / Ominous - a hundred enemy heads - / You demanded, and I double harvest / Filmed for ...

Italy of the thirties of our century, the working outskirts of Turin. In these dull scenery unfolds the sad story of the first love of a young girl Ginia to the artist Guido. Ginia works in an atelier and leads a company with factory workers and local guys. One day she met Amelia....

Italy, 1943–1944 Cesira is thirty-five years old; she is a native of Chocharia, a mountainous area south of Rome. As a young girl, she married a shopkeeper, moved to Rome, gave birth to a daughter, and at first she was very happy - until she revealed the true face of her husband. But then he became seriously ill ...

Italy, the twenties of the XX century. Three days in the life of five people: a middle-aged lady, Mariagration, the mistress of the declining villa, her children, Michele and Carla, Leo, a long-time lover of Mariagration, Lisa, her friend. Conversations, dates, thoughts ... Of all five, one Leo is happy with life and says that, ...

Mattia Pascal, a former book keeper in the library, bequeathed by a certain Signor Boccamazza to his hometown, writes the story of his life. Mattia's father died early, and the mother was left with two children - six-year-old Roberto and four-year-old Mattia. The manager Batta Malagna, who soon ruined the family, was in charge of all matters. ...

The action takes place in a secluded villa in rural Umbria at the beginning of the XX century. The room reproduces the decoration of the throne room of Henry IV, but to the right and left of the throne are two large contemporary portraits, one of which depicts a man in the costume of Henry IV, the other a woman in the costume of Matilda Tuscan....