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The narrative opens among university students who gather in Genoese coffeehouses, where idle talk, bohemian company, and playful rivalries illuminate youthful ambitions and alliances. Interwoven with these social sketches is the figure of Cecilia, born to an aristocratic family and admired for serene beauty, whose personal choices and relationships become focal points for social expectation and moral consequence. Through episodes of camaraderie, private pressure, and shifting attachments, the work examines how class conventions, romantic longing, and the habits of public life shape characters' fortunes and decisions.

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Title: Santa Cecilia

Author: Anton Giulio Barrili

Release date: August 18, 2014 [eBook #46613]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: Italian

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SANTA CECILIA ***

Anton Giulio Barrili

Santa Cecilia

ROMANZO.

MILANO
FRATELLI TREVES, EDITORI

15.º migliaio.


PROPRIETÀ LETTERARIA.

I diritti di riproduzione e di traduzione sono riservati per tutti i paesi, compresi la Svezia, la Norvegia e l'Olanda.

Tip. Treves. — 1912.