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Free Italian books for people learning Italian
40 books in Italian, all public domain and all free to download as EPUB from Project Gutenberg. Sorted by length rather than by difficulty: Gutenberg publishes no reading-ease figure, and the one used on the English shelf is tuned to English, so quoting it here would be a number that looks precise and means nothing.
Length is the thing that actually stops people, so start shorter than you think you need — coverage matters more than ambition. Word counts are estimated from each book’s plain-text size.
Short enough to finish 16 books
Under fifty thousand words. The first book you finish in a language is worth more than three you start.
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Mentana e il dito di Dio: Episodi narrati dal superstite Ettore Pozzi - Seconda edizione, con importanti aggiunte fatte dall'Autore
About 2 hours at a learner’s pace.
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La crisi: commedia in tre atti
About 3 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana e Statuti Costituzionali del Regno d'Italia
About 4 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Romanzo d'una signorina per bene
About 5 hours at a learner’s pace.
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A full novel 14 books
The length most novels actually are. A few weeks at twenty minutes a day.
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Piccoli eroi: Libro per i ragazzi
About 7 hours 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
About 8 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Abissinia: Giornale di un viaggio
About 11 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Castel Gavone: Storia del secolo XV
About 11 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1
About 12 hours at a learner’s pace.
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I drammi de' campi: Padre Don Giuseppe—La vendetta—Proprietari e fittaiuoli— Sequestro
About 13 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Longer 10 books
Worth it once a book from the band above has stopped feeling like work.
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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
About 14 hours at a learner’s pace.
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I demagoghi: O, I misteri di Livorno
About 15 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Damiano: Storia di una povera famiglia
About 17 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Le rive della Bormida nel 1794
About 17 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Economisti del cinque e seicento
About 18 hours at a learner’s pace.
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Libro della divina dottrina: Dialogo della divina provvidenza
About 22 hours at a learner’s pace.
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