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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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Examples for "novella"
1
In other words, a new review should be more novella than novel.
The Guardian
2
Ellen Datlow, who said there couldn't be a sequel to the novella.
Carrion comfort
3
His debut, the novella Out of Focus, was published in the 1980s.
The Irish Times
4
The deluxe edition includes a 95-page novella chronicling Buk's life and times.
The Irish Times
5
Which Francis Ford Coppola film is based in a Joseph Conrad novella?
The Irish Times
Usage of novelle in English
1
The right novel is never a congeries of novelle, as might appear to the uninspired.
Literature and Life (Complete)
2
It does not follow, however, that there are many novelle which, if they were duly padded, would be found novelettes.
Literature and Life (Complete)
3
The lightest of novelles and the thinnest of ballants have something precious for a lad of his kind.
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
4
"A few novelle, dealing with court-life; but chiefly verses," answered I.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in...
5
The introduction to the 'Cento Novelle Antiche,' which were put into their present shape before 1300, avow this object openly.
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
6
The "Novelle" alone has attained a fixed form, as a not too voluminous account of a remarkable occurrence.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
7
It comes from the Cento Novelle Antiche, rewritten from tales older than Boccaccio, and moreover of an extreme brevity and dryness.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
8
Lasca's Novelle, 'Le Cene,' should be studied by those who seek an insight into this curious Bohemia of the sixteenth century.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
9
"Ah," he said, smiling to himself, "they're after the novelles!
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
10
The class of productions, of which the "Decameron" was the earliest example in the fourteenth century, is called by the Italians "Novelle."
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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Indeed it is the leading piece in his chief volume of "Novelle," so that he has himself included it with his tales.]
Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian
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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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Novelle through the time