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LA MARCHESA COLOMBI - SENZ'AMORE - MILANO
PREFAZIONE.
PSICOLOGIA COMPARATA.
UNA CONFESSIONE - RACCONTO.
VITE SQUALLIDE.
LE BRICIOLE D'EPULONE.
LE AFFITTACAMERE, - I.
II.
FEDE.
A quiet, almost clinical eye surveys lives that have never known the warm currents of affection. Through a series of vignettes— from a desolate mother in a cramped confession to an elderly pair of boarding‑house keepers— the narrator sketches the stark loneliness that settles like dust on daily routines. The tone is observant rather than judgmental, inviting listeners to feel the weight of each unspoken yearning while keeping a respectful distance.
One of the early scenes turns that focus toward a strange, cramped poultry cage, its mechanised feeding system a bleak metaphor for the way society attempts to sustain those it has forgotten. The careful description of clucking birds, confined and fed through tubes, mirrors the human characters’ own constrained existence. The collection offers a subtle, compassionate study of how love—or its absence—shapes ordinary lives, leaving space for reflection without revealing the story’s later turns.
Language
it
Duration
~5 hours (289K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2006-02-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1840–1920
Best known by the pen name Marchesa Colombi, this Italian writer and journalist brought sharp wit and clear-eyed realism to stories about women’s everyday lives. Her work was hugely popular in its time and is now often remembered for its early feminist voice.
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