Italian · Intermediate
Read Il processo Bartelloni in Italianwith every sentence explained
English title: The Bartelloni Trial
Jarro · 1883
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About the book
Il processo Bartelloni by Jarro was first published in 1883. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked intermediate and filed under mystery and crime. It runs to about 55,800 words.
Every clue points to the boy. Only one cop thinks he's innocent, and he has his own reasons.
Florence, December 1831. The courtroom of the Bargello is packed: market vendors, aristocrats and diplomats have all come to see Nello Bartelloni, a poor young man accused of stabbing the painter Roberto Gandi in the dark Vicolo della Luna and leaving him for dead. The judge's report is merciless, the evidence overwhelming, and the crowd already hates him.
But police agent Lucertolo, "the Lizard", is not convinced. Sharp, ambitious and far from spotless himself, he suspects the real attacker is someone much closer to home: a brutal ex-fireman who has just slipped into the police force. Proving it could save Nello and make Lucertolo's career, if he can stay one step ahead of everyone.
Jarro's 1883 novel, set in grand-ducal Tuscany, is one of the earliest Italian detective stories, full of local colour and sly humour.
- Author
- Jarro
- First published
- 1883
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Mystery and Crime
- Length
- About 55,800 words
How it opens
Il 2 decembre 1831, circa le dieci antimeridiane, i sei auditori della Rota Fiorentina, che formavano il Turno Giudicante sugli affari criminali, erano tutti congregati nella stanza in cui solevano tener consiglio.
Arrivati alla spicciolata, si eran messi a discorrer fra loro degli argomenti più estranei allo scopo pel quale si riunivano.
Reading Il processo Bartelloni 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 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.
