CUORE

(HEART)

AN

ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY’S JOURNAL

BY

EDMONDO DE AMICIS

TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRTY-NINTH ITALIAN EDITION
BY
ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1887, 1895 and 1901.
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY

Copyright, 1915.
By ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

Printed in the United States of America

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

This book is specially dedicated to the boys of theelementary schools between the ages of nine and thirteenyears, and might be entitled: “The Story of aScholastic Year written by a Pupil of the Third Classof an Italian Municipal School.” In saying written bya pupil of the third class, I do not mean to say thatit was written by him exactly as it is printed. Henoted day by day in a copy-book, as well as he knewhow, what he had seen, felt, thought in the school andoutside the school; his father at the end of the yearwrote these pages on those notes, taking care not toalter the thought, and preserving, when it was possible,the words of his son. Four years later the boy, beingthen in the lyceum, read over the MSS. and addedsomething of his own, drawing on his memories, stillfresh, of persons and of things.

Now read this book, boys; I hope that you will bepleased with it, and that it may do you good.

Edmondo De Amicis.

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