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100 1 _aBeltramelli, Antonio,
_d1874-1930
245 1 3 _aIl Cantico
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-19
508 _aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library)
520 _a"Il Cantico : romanzo" by Antonio Beltramelli is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Duccio della Bella, a proud, impoverished young man who, after his mother’s death, rejects social hypocrisy and seeks freedom with the guidance of the wanderer Omero. Set against Italy’s countryside and lagoon towns, it meditates on dignity, poverty, and the pull of love, hinting at a new attachment in the luminous figure of Serenella. The opening of the novel shows Duccio keeping a fierce, solitary vigil at his mother’s deathbed, refusing neighbors’ false pity while only Omero offers quiet, genuine respect; at dawn, the mother dies. Soon after, Duccio rejects his demeaning clerkship, helps a peasant mother and daughter (Pavona) find legal aid for their imprisoned kin, and, after a bitter encounter with a hypocritical relative, resolves to cut ties with his past. With Omero’s help he sells everything, takes the road, and, exhausted but elated by liberty, reaches Comacchio, where an old fisherman friend, Giovanni della Nave, shelters them. The narrative then lingers on the lagoon world and introduces Giovanni’s daughter, Serenella—an ethereal, self-possessed presence—suggesting a brief pause in Duccio’s wandering and a new emotional current stirring within him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMilano: Treves, 1906
653 _aItalian fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76704
999 _c117429
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