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Meanings of novelle in English
Short prose tale popular in Renaissance Italy, progenitor of the short story.
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Usage of novelle in English
1
The right novel is never a congeries of novelle, as might appear to the uninspired.
2
It does not follow, however, that there are many novelle which, if they were duly padded, would be found novelettes.
3
The lightest of novelles and the thinnest of ballants have something precious for a lad of his kind.
4
"A few novelle, dealing with court-life; but chiefly verses," answered I.
5
The introduction to the 'Cento Novelle Antiche,' which were put into their present shape before 1300, avow this object openly.
6
The "Novelle" alone has attained a fixed form, as a not too voluminous account of a remarkable occurrence.
7
It comes from the Cento Novelle Antiche, rewritten from tales older than Boccaccio, and moreover of an extreme brevity and dryness.
8
Lasca's Novelle, 'Le Cene,' should be studied by those who seek an insight into this curious Bohemia of the sixteenth century.
9
"Ah," he said, smiling to himself, "they're after the novelles!
10
The class of productions, of which the "Decameron" was the earliest example in the fourteenth century, is called by the Italians "Novelle."
11
Indeed it is the leading piece in his chief volume of "Novelle," so that he has himself included it with his tales.]
12
At the end of the Novelle of Gentile Sermini of Siena, there is a chapter called Il Giuoco della pugna, the Game of Battle.