Memorie del Presbiterio: Scene di Provincia

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Memorie del Presbiterio: Scene di Provincia

by Emilio Praga

IT·~7 hours·35 chapters

Chapters

35 total

EMILIO PRAGA - MEMORIE DEL PRESBITERIO - SCENE DI PROVINCIA - TORINO - F. CASANOVA. LIBRAIO—EDITORE

0:09

AD ANTONIO GALATEO - AMICO MIO,

2:14

ROBERTO SACCHETTI - LE MEMORIE DEL PRESBITERIO

0:06

I.

2:16

II.

5:06

III.

10:38

IV.

9:52

V.

12:24

VI.

8:45

VII.

10:54

Description

A wandering narrator invites listeners into the quiet folds of an Alpine village, where a modest presbytery stands beside a bustling pharmacy and the town hall. The prose moves between vivid sketches of snow‑capped peaks and the intimate rhythms of daily life, offering a blend of poetry and memoir that feels both personal and communal.

Among the inhabitants are a weary priest whose sermons echo through stone corridors, a pragmatic doctor, and a mayor whose ambitions clash with the town’s slow pace. As the narrator carries a painter’s satchel and an unseen angel’s guidance, he records fleeting moments of laughter, loss, and the stubborn hope that colors even the most ordinary conversations.

The work remains a patchwork, completed by friends after the original author’s untimely departure, which lends the story a layered texture of reverence and improvisation. Listeners will hear a delicate balance of lyrical description and heartfelt reflection, a portrait of provincial life that lingers long after the final line.

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Language

it

Duration

~7 hours (419K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-10-05

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Emilio Praga

Emilio Praga

1839–1875

A restless voice of 19th-century Milan, he helped define the rebellious Scapigliatura movement with poetry and prose that pushed against polite literary conventions. He was also a painter and librettist, bringing the same bohemian energy to more than one art form.

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