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Free Italian books for people learning Italian
39 books in Italian, all public domain and free to download as EPUB from Project Gutenberg. Each one is measured from its own text — sentence length, and how much of it is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words.
These shelves carry no CEFR level. A CEFR-graded wordlist exists for English and is used on the English shelf; no equivalent is available for Italian, and inventing one from word frequency would be a number that looks precise and means nothing. What is shown here is measured — how, exactly.
Books on this shelf
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Tristi Amori
Gentle 2 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
81.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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La crisi: commedia in tre atti
Gentle 2 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
80.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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Olocausto
Gentle 5 h
Fiction
78.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 5 h at a learner’s pace.
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La carità del prossimo
Gentle 12 h
Fiction
76.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 12 h at a learner’s pace.
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La testa della vipera
Gentle 5 h
Fiction
76.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 5 h at a learner’s pace.
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Libro della divina dottrina: Dialogo della divina provvidenza
Gentle 21 h
Fiction
78.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 21 h at a learner’s pace.
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La Gioconda
Gentle 3 h
Fiction
75.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'amore che torna: romanzo
Steady 14 h
Romance Dialogue-heavy
74.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 14 h at a learner’s pace.
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Damiano: Storia di una povera famiglia
Steady 16 h
Fiction
77.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 16 h at a learner’s pace.
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Documenti Umani
Steady 8 h
Fiction
75.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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Le rive della Bormida nel 1794
Steady 17 h
Historical Dialogue-heavy
77.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 17 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'olmo e l'edera
Steady 8 h
Fiction
76.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 8 h at a learner’s pace.
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La volpe di Sparta
Steady 4 h
Fiction
75.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Piccoli eroi: Libro per i ragazzi
Steady 6 h
Fiction
76.1% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Romanzo d'una signorina per bene
Steady 4 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
73.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'Innocente
Steady 10 h
Fiction
72.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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L'indomani
Steady 4 h
Fiction
73.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Riconciliazione
Steady 2 h
Fiction
72.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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La trovatella di Milano
Steady 3 h
Historical
73.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Castel Gavone: Storia del secolo XV
Stretching 10 h
Historical
74.6% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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La Tempesta
Stretching 3 h
Fiction
72.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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La favorita del Mahdi
Stretching 15 h
AdventureHistorical
71.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 15 h at a learner’s pace.
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Ricordi d'infanzia e di scuola: seguìti da Bambole e marionette, Gente minima, Piccoli studenti, Adolescenti, Due di spade e due di cuori
Stretching 12 h
Biography
74.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 12 h at a learner’s pace.
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I demagoghi: O, I misteri di Livorno
Stretching 14 h
Fiction
72.7% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 14 h at a learner’s pace.
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Vecchie storie d'amore
Stretching 4 h
Romance Dialogue-heavy
73.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Economisti del cinque e seicento
Stretching 16 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
75.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 16 h at a learner’s pace.
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Novelle lombarde
Stretching 4 h
Fiction
69.5% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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La Divina Commedia di Dante
Demanding 13 h
Fiction Dialogue-heavy
72.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 13 h at a learner’s pace.
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Il Quadriregio
Demanding 12 h
Fiction
71.9% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 12 h at a learner’s pace.
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I ladri della pace
Demanding 6 h
Historical
70.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1
Demanding 11 h
Biography Dialogue-heavy
74.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 11 h at a learner’s pace.
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Fino a Dogali
Demanding 11 h
Historical
69.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 11 h at a learner’s pace.
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Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana e Statuti Costituzionali del Regno d'Italia
Demanding 3 h
Fiction
67.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 3 h at a learner’s pace.
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Cantoni il volontario
Demanding 6 h
AdventureHistorical Dialogue-heavy
68.4% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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Studi intorno alla storia della Lombardia: negli ultimi trent'anni e delle cagioni del difetto d'energia dei lombardi
Demanding 7 h
Fiction
69.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 7 h at a learner’s pace.
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Distruzione: Poema Futurista
Demanding 4 h
Fiction
64.2% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 4 h at a learner’s pace.
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Abissinia: Giornale di un viaggio
Demanding 10 h
Fiction
68.8% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 10 h at a learner’s pace.
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Mentana e il dito di Dio: Episodi narrati dal superstite Ettore Pozzi - Seconda edizione, con importanti aggiunte fatte dall'Autore
Demanding 2 h
Biography
66.0% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 2 h at a learner’s pace.
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I manifesti del futurismo
Demanding 6 h
Fiction
61.3% of this book is built from the two thousand commonest Italian words. About 6 h at a learner’s pace.
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