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The story opens with the death and belated burial of an elderly aunt whose household remembers her as remote and solitary. A superstitious maid claims the aunt had been seen poring over a dusty notebook that later disappeared, and predicts a surprise at the funeral. The narrative sketches domestic details — the aunt's austere room, ritual gifts of gold coins to two young relatives — and explores family indifference, generational estrangement, and the persistence of private secrets and superstition amid everyday life.

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Title: Il quaderno della zia

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Author: Enrico Castelnuovo

Release date: April 16, 2025 [eBook #75881]

Language: Italian

Original publication: Milano: Perseveranza, 1872

Credits: Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense - Milano)

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IL QUADERNO DELLA ZIA


IL
QUADERNO DELLA ZIA

NOVELLA

DI

ENRICO CASTELNUOVO

MILANO
COI TIPI DELLA PERSEVERANZA
1872


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