Read La vita comincia domani in Italianwith every sentence explained

La vita comincia domani by Guido da Verona is a public-domain classic. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked advanced and filed under romance and thriller and suspense.

A man is dying in a villa full of flowers. His doctor is in love with his wife.

It is spring at the Landi family's country villa, but the house revolves around a sickroom. Giorgio, wasting away from consumption, is nursed day and night by his beautiful, restless wife Novella. Treating him is his friend Andrea Ferento, a famous scientist with an iron will and unsettling eyes, who is secretly Novella's lover.

Around them move Novella's playful younger sister Maria Dora, just home from convent school and half in love with Andrea herself, and their brother Marcuccio, whose damaged mind sometimes seems to see more than anyone suspects. As Giorgio's suffering drags on, Andrea, a man who answers to no law but his own, begins to weigh a terrible question: does a man have the right to give death?

Guido da Verona was one of the bestselling Italian novelists of the early twentieth century, and this sensual, dark tale of love and guilt was completed in 1912.

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 advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate Italian book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.