Usurped Fame
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A good fit for
- Readers with Italian who want to read public-domain originals
- Those interested in 19th-century Italian literature and polemical writing
- Readers concerned with fame, evaluation and attribution who are willing to read source texts
- Learners who need free Italian texts for language extensive reading practice
Not a good fit for
- Readers with no Italian who read only Chinese translations
- Casual readers expecting strong plot and fast-paced narrative
- Researchers needing detailed annotations, an introduction or a scholarly edition
Reading tips
- Read the opening and contents first to judge the author's tone and line of argument before deciding your pace.
- Take brief notes in Italian by paragraph, recording key terms and the author's stance for later review.
- For long sentences, mark the main clause first and then add modifiers; do not translate word by word.
- Read interspersed background on Italian history to help understand the text's polemical context.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Vittorio Imbriani (1840–1886) was an Italian writer and literary critic, born in Naples in 1840 and died in Pomigliano d’Arco on 1 January 1886. He fought alongside Garibaldi and later devoted himself to collecting and arranging folk songs and tales, an interest that also shaped his literary writing and criticism. La novellaja fiorentina reflects his engagement with Tuscan folk narrative, while Fame usurpate and Mastr’Impicca show his attempts in fiction and satirical subjects. He also rediscovered Basile’s Lo cunto de li cunti, contributing to the study and circulation of the Neapolitan literary tradition. Public information is limited, but his work in folk literature and criticism has led him to be regarded as one of the important representatives of nineteenth-century Neapolitan culture.
