クオーレ — エドモンド・デ・アミーチス
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Author : Edmondo De Amicis Translator : Isabel Florence Hapgood Release date : May 24, 2009 [eBook #28961] Most recently updated: January 5, 2021 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28961 Credits : Produced by Emanuela Piasentini and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) *** START OF HAPGOOD NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright , 1887, 1895 and 1901. By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY Copyright , 1915. By ISABEL F. HAPGOOD Printed in the United States of America AUTHOR’S PREFACE This book is specially dedicated to the boys of the elementary schools between the ages of nine and thirteen years, and might be entitled: “The Story of a Scholastic Year written by a Pupil of the Third Class of an Italian Municipal School.” In saying written by a pupil of the third class, I do not mean to say that it was written by him exactly as it is printed. He noted day by day in a copy-book, as well as he knew how, what he had seen, felt, thought in the school and outside the school; his father at the end of the year wrote these pages on those notes, taking care not to alter the thought, and preserving, when it was possible, the words of his son. Four years later the boy, being then in the lyceum, read over the MSS. and added something of his own, drawing on his memories, still fresh, of persons and of things. Now read this book, boys; I hope that you will be pleased with it, and that it may do you good. Edmondo De Amicis. CONTENTS. OCTOBER. PAGE The First Day of School 1 Our Master 3 An Accident 5 The Calabrian Boy 6 My Comrades 8 A Generous Deed 10 My Schoolmistress of the Upper First 12 In an Attic 14 The School 16 The Little Patriot of Padua 17 The Chimney-Sweep 20 The Day of the Dead 22 NOVEMBER. My Friend Garrone 24 The Charcoal-Man and the Gentleman 26 My Brother’s Schoolmistress 28 My Mother 30 My Companion Coretti 31 The Head-Master 35 The Soldiers 38 Nelli’s Protector 40 The Head of the Class 42 The Little Vidette of Lombardy 44 The Poor 50 DECEMBER. The Trader 52 Vanity 54 The First Snow-Storm 56 The Little Mason 58 A Snowball 61 The Mistresses 62 In the House of the Wounded Man 64 The Little Florentine Scribe 66 Will 75 Gratitude 77 JANUARY. The Assistant Master 79 Stardi’s Library 81 The Son of the Blacksmith-Ironmonger 83 A Fine Visit 85 The Funeral of Vittorio Emanuele 87 Franti Expelled from School 89 The Sardinian Drummer-Boy 91 The Love of Country 100 Envy 102 Franti’s Mother 104 Hope 105 FEBRUARY. A Medal Well Bestowed 108 Good Resolutions 110 The Engine 112 Pride 114 The Wounds of Labor 116 The Prisoner 118 Daddy’s Nurse 122 The Workshop 132 The Little Harlequin 135 The Last Day of the Carnival 139 The Blind Boys 142 The Sick Master 149 The Street 151 MARCH. The Evening Schools 154 The Fight 156 The Boys’ Parents 158 Number 78 160 A Little Dead Boy 163 The Eve of the Fourteenth of March 164 The Distribution of Prizes 166 Strife 172 My Sister 174 Blood of Romagna 176 The Little Mason on His Sick-Bed 184 Count Cavour 187 APRIL. Spring 189 King Umberto 191 The Infant Asylum 196 Gymnastics 201 My Father’s Teacher 204 Convalescence 215 Friends Among the Workingmen 217 Garrone’s Mother 219 Giuseppe Mazzini 221 Civic Valor 223 MAY. Children with the Rickets 229 Sacrifice 231 The Fire 233 From the Apennines to the Andes 237 Summer 276 Poetry 278 The Deaf-Mute 280 JUNE. Garibaldi 290 The Army 291 Italy 293 Thirty-Two Degrees 295 My Father 297 In the Country 298 The Distribution of Prizes to the Workingmen 302 My Dead Schoolmistress 305 Thanks 308 Shipwreck 309 JULY. The Last Page from my Mother 317 The Examinations 318 The Last Examination 321 Farewell 323 CUORE. AN ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY’S JOURNAL. OCTOBER. FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. Monday, 17th. To-day is the first day of school. These three months of vacation in the country have passed like a dream. This morning my mother conducted me to the Baretti schoolhouse to have me enter for the third elementary course: I was thinking of the country and went unwillingly. All the streets were swarming with boys: the two book-shops were thronged with fathers and mothers who were purchasing bags, portfolios, and copy-books, and in front of the school so many people had collected, that the beadle and the policeman found it difficult to keep the entrance disencumbered. Near the door, I felt myself touched on the shoulder: it was my master of the second class, cheerful, as usual, and with his red hair ruffled, and he said to me:— “So we are separated forever, Enrico?” I knew it perfectly well, yet these words pained me. We made our way in with difficulty. Ladies, gentlemen, women of the people, workmen, officials, nuns, servants, all leading boys with one hand, and holding the promotion books in the other, filled the anteroom and the stairs, making such a buzzing, that it seemed as though one were entering a theatre. I beheld again with pleasure that large room on the ground floor, with the doors leading to the seven classes, where I had passed nearly every day for three years. There was a throng; the teachers were going and coming. My schoolmistress of the first upper class greeted me from the door of the class-room, and said:— “Enrico, you are going to the floor above this year. I shall never see you pass by any more!” and she gazed sadly at me. The director was surrounded by women in distress because there was no room for their sons, and it struck me that his beard was a little whiter than it had been last year. I found the boys had grown talle