Italian · Beginner
Read Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca in Italianwith every sentence explained
English title: Gian Burrasca's Diary
Vamba · 1912
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About the book
Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca by Vamba was first published in 1912. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked beginner and filed under children and young adult. It runs to about 67,700 words.
A brand-new diary. A boy who can't stay out of trouble. A family that never stands a chance.
For his ninth birthday, Giannino Stoppani of Florence gets a diary, and he decides to write down everything that happens to him. Everyone calls him Gian Burrasca, "Johnny Storm", and he soon proves why. He means well, truly, but every good idea turns into a disaster.
He spills his sisters' secrets to their suitors, plays tricks on visitors, sets things on fire and turns the house upside down, always convinced that the grown-ups are being unfair. Through his innocent eyes we see the small hypocrisies of the adult world, and laugh at every page.
Written by the journalist Vamba in 1907–08 and published as a book in 1912, Gian Burrasca's Diary is one of Italy's favourite comic classics. The 1960s TV series with Rita Pavone made it a household name.
- Author
- Vamba
- First published
- 1912
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children, Young Adult
- Length
- About 67,700 words
How it opens
17 ottobre.
La zia Bettina non s’è ancora alzata, e io approfitto di questo momento per registrare qui l’avventura accadutami ieri, e che meriterebbe proprio di esser descritta dalla penna di un Salgari. Iermattina, dunque, mentre tutti dormivano, fuggii da casa come avevo stabilito, dirigendomi verso la stazione.
Reading Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca in Passage
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 beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Italian and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
