italian /lit/

>>9817352
Il visconte dimezzato,
Il barone rampante,
Il cavaliere inesistente,
by Italo Calvino

>how hard is pinocchio?
Here's the incipit:

C'era una volta...
– Un re! – diranno subito i miei piccoli lettori. No, ragazzi, avete sbagliato. C'era una volta un pezzo di legno.

Non era un legno di lusso, ma un semplice pezzo da catasta, di quelli che d'inverno si mettono nelle stufe e nei caminetti per accendere il fuoco e per riscaldare le stanze.

>>9817352
marcovaldo

>>9817352
>and how hard is pinocchio? its the first book that came to mind
i think kids tales are usually written in a kind of archaic language so kids can learn weird verbs and stuff that you don't really find in normal speech.

so probably young adult novel shit would be easier

>>9817352
Read The Decameron and Dante

mama mia! provolone pasta fazoul! mozarella di tutti romano!

GABAGOOL!

>>9817392
Il Cavaliere Inesistente is a true masterpiece, and is written in gorgeous prose

You could also try something by Buzzati, his style isn't very hard. I suggest you to start with "Sessanta Racconti"

>>9817414
Anon, Pinocchio was published in 1881. When it was published it wasn't archaic at all

>>9817352
Don't be a faggot and man up:
me and at least one other anon discovered we both taught ourselves to read Italian by reading obscure astrological books in that language...
Pick a topic you really want to know about, find out who's the best writer or what's the best book on the subject and go and read that.

>>9818170
well what I really want to know is literature, so its basically dante, ludovico ariosto, eco and calvino...so far at least

>>9818207
Eco and Calvino write in contemporary Italian, the other two do not.

>>9818207
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html#aristo
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html#demo
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html#chaos

I suggest you start from the more recent works

>>9818207
good. Throw in Carducci, Guinizelli and Cavalcanti for good measure too.

Calvino always wrote in a very light and transparent style. Good for beginners.

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>>9817414
>young adult novel shit would be easier

la mia professoressa ha fatto noi leggere 'tre metri sopra il cielo' e era abbastanza bene

mi manca italia...

>>9818241
>'tre metri sopra il cielo'
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>9818254
no hai una ragazza mai?

"I fondamenti dell'astrologia medica" by Ciro Discepolo was an easy read, not classic, though (2005). But fun nonetheless. The author is somewhat of a conspiracy teorist; first he's talking about aries people having more car accidents than other signs, and next a cancer apocalypse is upon us thanks to monsanto.

He also spends a chapter on Luigi Pirandello's bio

>>9818480
Haha, nice to see you again, astrological anon/
The author I mentioned before, Fulvio Mocco, lards his books with quotations from Metastasio, and curiously enough I found a half dozen early editions (yes, late 1700s) of Metastasio's works soon after in a bookshop sale, they were going to throw them out so I rescued them...

>>9818294
Anon... tre metri sopra il cielo is a shitty book by a shitty author that became a shitty film loved by 14 y/o girls

Does anybody know a good place to find Italian audiobooks? I'm not taking a class and I'm not too confident in my ability to get the pronounciation perfectly right on my own.

>>9818170
>>9818510

Hahaha, didn't read the first post. Actually i had another source wich was simply rewatching cartoons on italian. A lot easier to pick up words when you have visual cues

>>9817570
get the fuck outta here, fucking cunt, why the fuck you took the time to post this fucking nonsense?

>>9817570
Porca troia, che cazzo, rompicoglione!

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>>9818559
>lui non piace vedere nella mente di giovane ragazze

thanks guys, got some good stuff from this thread, appreciate it.

Emilio Salgari maybe?

>>9818954
Stop speaking, that's not italian.

>>9818241
Anonimo, Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo è merda che caga merda, come tutti i libri di Federico Moccia. È forse la merda peggiore della produzione letteraria italiana.
Anon, Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo is shit shitting more shit, like evreything else written by this Federico Moccia guy. It's most probably the worst piece of shit of all the Italian literary production