Read L'anno 3000 in Italianwith every sentence explained

L'anno 3000 by Paolo Mantegazza was first published in 1897. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked intermediate and filed under science fiction. It runs to about 42,300 words.

A young couple. An electric airship. A journey across the world of the future.

It is the year 3000. Paolo and Maria, who have lived together for five years in a "marriage of love", leave Rome, capital of the United States of Europe, in their electric flying machine. They are heading for Andropoli, the capital of the whole planet, built at the foot of the Himalayas. There a scientific senate will decide whether they may marry for good and have children.

Along the way they visit a museum-city of the past, fish beside the Pyramids, and stop on the Island of Experiments, where every failed form of government, from tyranny to forced equality, is preserved like an exhibit. In Andropoli they discover how humanity now lives, works, heals and governs itself. And to pass the time, Paolo reads aloud an antique book that tried to imagine their world a thousand years earlier.

Published in 1897 by the famous scientist Paolo Mantegazza, this is a classic of Italian utopian science fiction.

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.