Read I suicidi di Parigi in Italianwith every sentence explained

I suicidi di Parigi by Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina is a public-domain classic. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked intermediate and filed under historical fiction and romance.

A gypsy child bought at a country fair. A glittering Paris salon. A bride who vanishes in the night.

Count Gennaro di Nubo is a Neapolitan exile, a famous doctor and a cold cynic who treats people as material for his schemes. Years ago, at a fair in Calabria, he bought a gifted little gypsy girl from her band and passed her off as his noble niece, Regina.

Now Regina is the star of his Paris circle, engaged to the rich banker Alberto Dehal, her wedding gifts the envy of every lady. But that very night she slips out into the Bois de Boulogne and runs away with the poet Sergio di Linsac. Behind them, the count and a jilted young widow begin to plot.

Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, a fiery Neapolitan journalist and politician, follows this story with two more episodes, Maud and Vitaliana, painting a dazzling, merciless high society where love and ambition lead to despair.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Italian feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.