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Libreria Ledi has selected some titles of Audiobooks, which consist of one or more audiocassette or audio CD (and now also CDMP3) containing texts read by professional narrators. The works are completely in Italian.
Italian Literature
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L'Odissea è un testo che conserva sempre intatto il suo fascino particolare. Restiamo sempre ammaliati da quello che si può considerare il viaggio più importante di tutta la cultura occidentale. Ulisse si scontra impotente con il continuo gioco degli dèi, che di volta in volta lo salvano o tentano di eliminarlo, ma forse sono proprio quelle stesse divinità che invidiano questo essere umano capace di un coraggio e di una intelligenza leggendari, e di sentimenti che valgono molto di più della loro immortalità.L’audiolibro contiene versione integrale dell’Odissea, nella traduzione in prosa di Giuseppe Tonna. La lettura a voce alta di Claudio Carini propone un ascolto ricco di sfumature evocative Editore:Recitar Leggendo Audiolibri |
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LUIGI PIRANDELLO: IL FU MATTIA PASCAL (CdMp3) "Il fu Mattia Pascal" is the most important novel of Pirandello, written in the 1904. Editore: Recitar Leggendo |
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DANTE ALIGHIERI : LA DIVINA COMMEDIA (CdMp3) Un unico CD MP3 per una durata complessiva di circa 15 ore. Editore: Recitar Leggendo |
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Audio Antologia della Letteratura Italiana - Opera Completa - CD copia A learning method for all those wishing to enrich their cultural knowledge of Italian and to appreciate more about this ancient land. We offer a pleasant and simple listening experience of the most important chapters of Italian Literature from the great poets of the Middle Ages to contemporary writers, read by narrators, writers and actors. The narrators’ voices enliven and enrich the stories with the resulting improvement to the reader’s imagination and thinking. Learning with text and voice improves language and pronunciation skills. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Svevo - La coscienza di Zeno (CDMP3) Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Gabriele D’Annunzio: racconti da Terra Vergine The most complete expression of the Decadence in Italy is supplied by the life and works of Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). He explored aesthetic mysticism and the irrational, linking them to his own naturalistic and sensual feeling. Abandoning reason as a means for knowledge, D'Annunzio gave himself up to instinct and the senses, seeing in them the way to deeper life and the mysteries of the ego which were at one with the secrets of nature. The passionate verve of his emotions was given ample voice through a variety of form, technical innovation and an evocative and original use of language. In the audiobook you can listen to some of his juvenile short stories. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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1- L'Infinito Editore: RECITAR LEGGENDO |
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Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca (CDMP3) “Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca” is the diary of an imaginary boy called Giannino Stoppani, nicknamed “Gian Burrasca” for the pranks he gets up to. From one adventure to another, Giannino brings to the pages of a diary the joys and suffering of a misunderstood boy who manages to make his family look ridiculous. They tell him off, punish him and even send him off to boarding school, because they do not appreciate his good intentions as he plays his tricks for fun although but which regularly have disastrous results. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Italo Calvino : Le Citta’ Invisibili Amongst the many successful writers to emerge in the last few decades, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) deserves particular mention. . Born in Cuba, he grew up in San Remo, Italy, and began as a writer of realistic political works set in the upheaval of postwar Italy. However, he found his voice as a storyteller, taking simple conceits and spinning them into fantastic tales, and exploring the boundaries of narrative in all its forms. Invisible Cities is as magical a construction of words. The novel is like a series of luminous paintings that narrate an unknow mythology; each small scene the author draws absorbs one's imagination until the mind seeps completely into his creation. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Tiziano Scarpa : Venezia è un pesce. Una guida If you want to listen to a truly original book, and perhaps even walk around Venice under the guidance of the voice of Tiziano Scarpa who tells the story through the sensations he gets from his feet, legs, heart, hands, face, ears, mouth, nose, eyes... Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Dante Alighieri e la letteratura italiana del XIII sec Contenuto: : FRANCESCO D'ASSISI, Cantico del Sole (Laude delle creature) - CIELO D'ALCAMO, Contrasto - MARCO POLO da “Il Milione”: De la fattezza del Grande Kane; Del palagio del Grande Kane - da IL NOVELLINO, Qui conta del Vescovo Aldobrandino, come fu schernito da un frate; Qui conta come Narcis s'innamorò de l'ombra sua; Qui conta della gran iustizia di Traiano imperatore - CECCO ANGIOLIERI, S'i' fossi foco - JACOPONE DA TODI, Quanto t'aliegre omo d'altura - GUIDO GUINIZZELLI, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore - GUIDO CAVALCANTI, Chi è questa che ven - DANTE ALIGHIERI, da "Vita Nuova ": Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare; da" Rime ": Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io; da "La Divina Commedia - Inferno": Canto I, Canto V (ridotto), Canto XXXIII. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Dante Alighieri: Divina Commedia - Antologia vol. 1° 1- Inferno Canto I Editore: RECITAR LEGGENDO |
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Petrarca e la letteratura italiana del XV e XVI secolo Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was a precursor of the Humanist thought of the Renaissance and the author of numerous philosophical, religious and poetic works in Latin, but his major works, "I Trionfi", and "Il Canzoniere", are written in the vernacular. You can listen to poems of the latter work, where he examines his soul, analyses his unrequited love for Laura (whoever the lady may have been) and probes his inner - unresolved - crises. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) were both thinkers and artists whose sweeping interests embody the spiritual ideals and morals of that century. Leon Battista Alberti was a man of many talents: architect, theorist, mathematician, physicist and scholar, as well as the author of treatises on sculpture and architecture, written in both the vernacular and Latin. More than any other Leonardo da Vinci represents the ideal Renaissance man, versatile and open to all experience; his genius found expression in painting, sculpture, philosophy, mathematics and the study of the sciences, but he was also important as a writer thanks to his treatise on painting. Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), one of the most prominent historian and writer of Renaissance, had a philosophy based on the same basic principles as Machiavelli's: the individual, with his passions and actions, is the driving force of history. You can appreciate his acute sense of history listening to a chapter of his "History of Italy". Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) can be ranked alongside Dante and Petrarca as one of the three great Italian literary figures of the 14th century who were also prominent on the European Scene. He can be distinguished from them, however by his greater concentration on earthly themes and subjects and his relative disinterest in moral, religious, theological and political issues. Boccaccio's greatest work is "The Decameron", a collection of 100 tales linked in a narrative framework, where he masterfully portrays different characters and their various passions, thus creating a vivacious image of life in all its many facets. Here you can listen to three of his most known novels. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Giacomo Leopardi: Operette Morali – Antologia 1- Dialogo di un venditore d'almanacchi e di un passeggere Editore: RECITAR LEGGENDO |
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Nicolo’ Machiavelli: da Il Principe The works of Niccolo' Machiavelli (1469-1527) represent the first attempt to express political science as an autonomous branch of learning, distinct from morality and religion. In his major works ("The Prince", "Discourses", "The Art of War"), Machiavelli conceives of history as a human creation, bereft of Providential interference, and focuses on the problem of the State, its efficiency, military organization and laws. He proposes the creation of a new kind of State as well as spelling out for the "new prince" the expedients necessary to defend his power, including actions that may become inevitable even if appearing morally unsound. Here you can listen to seven selected chapters. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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I Poemi epici del Rinascimento Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) is the poet who best expresses the ideals of the Renaissance; his major work, "Orlando Furioso", recounts in verse different and fanstastic adventures of Medieval knights and their lady loves, but the traditional chivalric style is just a pretext for an imaginative pageant of duels and battles, incredible journeys, monsters and sorcerers, enchanted castles, friendship and love, betrayal and deceit, narrated at an unflagging pace in a dazzling style that transports the listener to that half-world between dream and reality. Torquato Tasso's (1544-1595) works are the most representative of the post-Tridentine period with its realization of Man's ephemerality after the Renaissance belief in his strength. In his major work, "Gerusalemme liberata", the feudal, courtly world is described through the fantastically dramatic adventures of the characters, and love is treated as the temptation of a purely earthly happiness in conflict with religious spirituality. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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CD 1 Editore: RECITAR LEGGENDO |
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Filosofia e Scienza nel XVII e XVIII secolo In contrast to the decline of poetry, in the 17th century there was a wealth of prose. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), who founded modern scientific research earned a place in literature thanks to his uncomplicated style. Philosophical writers such as Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) were another highlight in an otherwise unrewarding literary century with his “La Città del Sole”. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is perhaps the best-known philosopher of the Italian late Renaissance. Bruno pictured nature in all its multiplicity descending from divine unity to matter and darkness. At once, he distinguished God from the world and yet tended toward a completely contrary pantheism. The new ideas of Enlightenment in the 18 th century spread in Italy especially in Milan where the periodical "Caffé", the Verri brothers and Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) inquired into literary, economic and civil problems with a modern approach. You can listen to pieces among their best works. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Ugo Foscolo: Dei Sepolcri e Ultime Lettere di J.Ortis Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) was one of Italy's major 19th-century poets. He expressed the poet's personal occupation with the difficult years of mutation from the Enlightenment to Romanticism, the French Revolution to the Restoration, 18th-century materialism to the Romantic religious angst. He gave voice to a lay earthly faith based on the highest human values of truth, justice, beauty, patriotism and liberty. These themes appear in his juvenilia "Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis", an autobiographical story in the form of letters, but reach their fullest and most poetic expression in the sonnet sequence and his most successful poem: "Dei Sepolcri". Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameròn - Antologia v. 1° 1- G. 5 - Nov 9: Federigo degli Alberighi Editore: RECITAR LEGGENDO |
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Giacomo Leopardi : opere scelte Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) was one of the great Italian poets of the 19th century for the depth of his thought, his acute understanding of psychology and the power of his poetic expression. Leopardi's characteristic existential anguish reflects the general European spiritual and philosophical crisis that marked the end of the Enlightenment and the rise of Romanticism. The skeptical concepts of 18th-century rationalism could not preclude Romantic angst about the infinite, the eternal, a reason for life beyond ennui, universal sorrow and inevitable death. Leopardi's lyrical poems sing of illusion, love, beauty and the noble human emotions as a comfort against the agonizing process of living and an affirmation of Man's inherent dignity. You can listen to -among his major works- … la Ginestra, L’Infinito, Operette Morali, Il Canto Notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Giovanni Verga: La Lupa e Rosso Malpelo The second half of the 19th century saw the rise of a realist tendency in Italian literature created by the reaction against Romantic idealism. The Realist movement proposed an objective, scientific analysis of society and the psychology of the individual, detached from any personal, emotional or ideological intrusion from the author. The master of Realism was Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) whose novels, particularly "I Malavoglia", describe the dismal world of the dispossessed and wretched in Sicily, oppressed by a symbolic adverse Fate. Here you can listen to two of his most known novels. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Italo Svevo: La Madre e Vino generoso The writings of Italo Svevo(1861-1928) are close to the Pirandellian spirit and his major novels ("Una Vita", "Senilità ", "La Coscienza di Zeno") have an autobiographical background. They are an attempt to reach the innermost recesses of the mind through psychological analysis rather than straightforward narrative. The typical Svevian character is a loser, a man incapable of living, except on a mental level, because of the constant introspection which paralyses his will to act while leaving him fully aware of his sickness and defeat. We present an audio narrative of two of his greatest short stories. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Luigi Pirandello: Pallino e Mimi’ e La Carriola The works of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934) originated on the fringes of Realism but soon took on their own identity by their bitter and paradoxically ironic view of life. Pirandello focussed on the individual, his anxieties and his desperate attempts to live, to be someone, which always go unsatisfied and finish in bizarre, often insane gestures. In an indecipherable universe all appears relative, including the individual, whose discovery of this emptiness and the insignificance of existence is at the heart of Pirandello's novels ("Uno, Nessuno, Centomila"; "Il fu Mattia Pascal") and his plays ("Sei Personaggi in cerca d'Autore", "Enrico IV", "Così è, se vi pare"). In this audiobook you can listen to two very famous short stories. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Chi non ha almeno una volta nella vita incontrato Cuore nelle proprie letture? Sicuramente tutti quelli che hanno più di 50 anni, ma molti anche più giovani. Ora è finalmente disponibile anche all'ascolto in un unico CDMP3. E', dopo Pinocchio, il più celebre libro per ragazzi scritto in Italia. L'opera si compone di una successione di aneddoti e bozzetti di vita scolastica, da cui risulta soprattutto una serie di ritratti di compagni, appartenenti a diverse classi sociali, e dai caratteri più vari. Si snoda così la vicenda di un anno scolastico tipo e, attraverso di esso, un quadro della società torinese dell’età umbertina. Alle pagine del diario di Enrico si alternano i racconti mensili edificanti (Dagli Appennini alle Ande, Il tamburino sardo, La piccola vedetta lombarda, ecc.) che il maestro propone agli scolari. E' stato un libro per l’Italia unita; quando fu pubblicato per la prima volta a Milano nel 1886, il giovane stato unitario italiano era di fronte all’impegnativo tentativo di diffondere in tutto il territorio un’unica coscienza nazionale e di realizzare un’unificazione culturale e linguistica ancora del tutto assente. La morale che De Amicis fa uscire dalle pagine del libro è una morale che esalta il sacrificio e il lavoro, il rispetto delle gerarchie sociali e la fratellanza umana. Assai ammirato ai suoi tempi, “Cuore” è oggi considerato con molte riserve, per l’eccesso dell’esaltazione dei valori patriottici e sociali dell’Italia post-unitaria e per il sentimentalismo retorico e un po’ eccessivo che De Amicis fa esprimere ai suoi personaggi, ma è stato il libro più amato, non solo dai bambini, per molti decenni. |
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This novel by Buzzati is a simple yet fantastic story written in 1935; a sort of praising of childhood, it is filled with metamorphoses, sorcery, magical happenings and is a metaphor of the paradoxical relationship that adult humans have with Nature. The protagonist is Colonel Sebastiano Procolo, who inherits part of his uncle's estate in the Valle di Fondo, the so-called "Bosco Vecchio", while the remainder of the estate is left to Sebastiano's twelve-year-old nephew Benvenuto, who lives in a boarding school not far from Fondo. Soon the colonel's selfishness drives in his attempt to claim the entire wood in order to exploit to the full its resources by chopping down the trees. The goblins, secular custodians of the trees, resist his attempts and in the end the colonel, defeated and repentant, succumbs to the secret sacredness of the wood and its inhabitants. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Le Avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino Let's rediscover the real story of Pinocchio, which came from the pen of Carlo Lorenzini (alias Collodi) towards the end of the 1800s in Italy and conquered the world. Le avventure di Pinocchio has become one of those books that are timeless and read all over the world. In fact, together with the Bible and the Koran, it is the most widely translated book ever. Il Narratore can offer you a reading of the original text with a voice that becomes many, giving new life to the characters that, amongst others, are by now familiar to everyone of all ages: Geppetto, Jiminy Cricket, Figaro, the fire-eater…. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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L' Uccel bel-verde e La Foresta-radice-labirinto L'Uccel bel-verde is the story of a king, an unfortunate queen, two jealous sisters and an wicked old lady. Two brothers and a sister, all of whom are fair-haired, have to find a particular bird - l'uccel bel-verde. They have to discover its secret in order to break a spell. One of Calvino's most beautiful children's stories. La Foresta-radice-labirinto is one of the last stories for children written by Italo Calvino: it is the story of sinister intrigue, stepmothers, princesses, love, passion and spells which unravels along the paths of the labyrinth-forest ('foresta-labirinto'), where the characters get lost, find their bearings and where, in the end, the question 'where do things start and finish ' may be asked. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Visioni del mondo - Opera Completa 4 CD o 4 MC The audio files (Italian spoken) of the Visions of the World Collection are dedicated to the spread, reflection and testing of an "ecology of ideas". Visions of the World are stories narrated and set to music and special effects and introduce the idea of "thinking how we really think". In other words, they are important texts taken from literature from all around the world and from all cultures – past and present. They are read and commented upon by narrators that guide the listener through ‘meetings’ with the most beautiful creations of the human mind. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Bhagavad Gita (Canto del Beato Signore) Bhagavad Gita has been described as the quintessence of Indian spirituality. Gita is the heart of the Mahabharata the great Hindu epic, and the dialogue between Krishna and the demigod Arjuna is directed at all those who are searching for a higher truth of the world. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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This Buddhist text embodies the ancient religious belief in the reincarnation of the soul. The wheel of karma must be respected and surpassed through virtuous actions by the living to enable the souls of the dead to abandon the path towards reincarnation and liberate themselves in the definitive union with the Cosmic Absolute. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Gregory Bateson e l'Ecologia della Mente Anthropologist, ethologist and natural philosopher, Gregory Bateson remains one of the most important thinkers of the 1900s. He inspired systemic psychiatry and created an epistemology based on “Learning to Learn”.The narrators read from his major works and conferences. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Lo Zen (L'arte di essere ad una spanna da terra) Zen presented through short stories and dialogues taken from the works of the principle masters of this philosophy of life. Simple and, paradoxically, at the same time complex, Zen cannot be defined in any one way, It may be seen as comparable to the process of forgetting, of unlearning and of abandoning ideologies and all fixed forms of thought and feeling through which the mind tries to grasp life itself. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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Enio Sartori expresses the critical spirit and expressive potential of poetry in Venetian neo-dialect in this recital, which is the result of a successful blending of various languages and artistic experiences. "Parole suonate in controcanto" is an attempt at mapping out, in words and music, of routes in the 'altovicentino' territory of the Veneto seen as a land of cultural frontiers; here he tries to express his desire to trace territorial features and frameworks which may be set out through new relationships and new identities. Editore: IL NARRATORE |
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