The Turmoil
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with Italian reading ability interested in Italian literature
- Scholars studying late 19th-century Italian fiction and social themes
- Italian learners who need free original texts for classroom selected reading
- Advanced readers who like realist style and are willing to verify background
Not a good fit for
- General readers who cannot read Italian and need a Chinese translation
- Casual readers who prefer fast-paced plots and do not want to verify background
- Beginners who need a systematic introduction to the author's life and works
Reading tips
- First learn about the social background of Rovetta's time, then enter the novel's plot.
- Note the imagery of 'chaos' suggested by the title, and observe how the group of characters and conflicts unfold.
- Italian learners can read through one chapter first, then review unfamiliar words and sentence patterns.
- Compare with Italian realist novels of the same period, comparing themes and narrative methods.
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About the author
Gerolamo Rovetta (1854–1910) was an Italian author, with fourteen of his works held in this collection. Because public information is limited, the details of his life are difficult to describe at length, yet the surviving titles give a fair picture of his writing: he produced both novels and plays, and his representative works include Mater dolorosa, Casta diva, La baraonda, La moglie di Sua Eccellenza, L'idolo, La Signorina: Romanzo, Sott'acqua: racconto, and the three-act comedy La trilogia di Dorina. These works mostly take social reality and family ethics as their themes, unfolding their plots with care and giving their characters a marked dramatic tension, which shows that he was skilled in both narrative and stage writing. In this collection his works are classified under inspirational growth, suggesting that in the Chinese context they are regarded as reading with an edifying quality.
