Read Il conte di Montecristo in Italianwith every sentence explained

Il conte di Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas was first published in 1844. In Passage you read the full text in Italian, marked intermediate and filed under historical fiction and thriller and suspense.

Arrested at his betrothal feast. Buried alive in an island fortress. Back years later under another name.

Marseille, 1815. Edmond Dantès, a young sailor about to become captain of the Pharaon and marry the beautiful Mercédès, is seized in the middle of his betrothal celebration. A jealous rival, an envious shipmate and an ambitious magistrate have each played their part, and Dantès is thrown without trial into the Château d'If, the fortress nobody leaves.

Long years in a cell, and a fellow prisoner with an extraordinary secret, turn the trusting sailor into someone else entirely. When the fabulously rich and enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo appears in Paris society, charming, generous and impossible to read, the men who ruined Dantès have no idea whose hand they are shaking.

This complete Italian translation follows Alexandre Dumas's great novel of patience and revenge from the harbour of Marseille to the carnival of Rome and the salons of Paris.

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.