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  • noun A plural of novella, but only in the sense of a compact story.

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From Italian plural of novella

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Examples

  • March 5, 2008 at 11: 30 am its the real love-story for a new recover-novelle “horse from greece”! troja and other great objekts in our hearts. lovely and holly eastern all dreamers!!!! mad-rab …

    Feb 14 « The Museum Of Modern Fiction 2008

  • This quasi-historical fiction is followed hy a succession of fabliaux, novelle and historiettes which fill the rest of the vol.iv. and the whole of vol.v. till we reach the terminal story, The

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He had perused the numerous romantic poems, which, from the days of Pulci, have been a favourite exercise of the wits of Italy, and had sought gratification in the numerous collections of novelle, which were brought forth by the genius of that elegant though luxurious nation, in emulation of the ‘Decameron.’

    Waverley 2004

  • [10] Both these incidents are the common property of Italian novelle and our own stage.

    A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

  • In Boccaccio's Decamerone and, above all, in the Tuscan novelle, artists appear mainly as the perpetrators of entertaining and burlesque prac - tical jokes.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

  • And in one of Franco Sacchetti's novelle one finds a painter's wife exclaiming: “You painters are all whimsical and of ever-changing mood; you are constantly drunk and are not even ashamed of yourselves!”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

  • But in contrast to the anecdotal topoi in the Tuscan novelle (Kris and Kurz, 1934), the literary image of the artist from the fifteenth century onward loses its jolly and light-hearted connotations and pre - sents us with serious problems of individualization.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

  • Even in the less sensual novelle, the first of which was Piccolomini's

    Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

  • Beccadeli to the works of Berni and Pietro Aretino, a foul stream of novelle, epigrams, and comedies, from which the serious Dante would have turned his eyes in disgust, overflowed the land.

    Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

  • _Il tempo delle novelle passa presto_ ( "Time passes quickly in stories").

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

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