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Cuore (heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal

Edmondo De Amicis

Cuore (heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal

Cuore (heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal

Edmondo De Amicis

Children & Young Adult Reading, Novels, Parenthood & Family Relations

Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood

This is the book that generations of Italians have carried to school, a diary of a ten-year-old boy named Enrico Bottini that has shaped the literary consciousness of Italy for over a century. Written in 1886 by Edmondo De Amicis, Cuore documents an entire school year through the eyes of a child discovering friendship, loss, kindness, and the small dramas of classroom life. Enrico records everything: the dread of returning to school after summer, the fierce loyalties of childhood, the beloved teacher who treats students with dignity, the tragedies that strike his classmates' families. De Amicis writes with genuine compassion for working-class struggles and the dignity of ordinary people. The book can feel dated, its moral lessons are explicit, its sentimentality undiluted, but this is precisely what gives it its power. For Italian readers, it's an act of collective memory, a shared touchstone of childhood. For everyone else, it offers a window into a world where childhood was taken seriously, and feelings were never dismissed as unimportant.

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“The school is a mother””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“Recuérdalo, Enrique: cuando encuentres a un anciano, a una mujer con su criatura en brazos, a uno que anda con muletas,a un hombre con su carga a cuestas, a una familia vestida de luto, cédeles el paso con respeto; debemos tener atenciones especiales con la vejez, la miseria, el amor maternal, la enfermedad, la fatiga y la muerte.””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“Tengo valor para morir, pero no para sufrir en vano.””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“Proponte cada día ser mejor y más amable que el día anterior. Di todas las mañanas:Hoy quiero hacer algo que pueda alabarme la conciencia y contente a mi padre, algo que aumente el aprecio de tal o cual compañero, el afecto del maestro, de mi hermano o de otros.””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“No soy digno de besarte las manos””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“Pero pensaba en lo que me aconsejaba mi padre:"Si te ofenden,defiéndete; pero sin llegar nunca a pelearte".””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“Quiere a tu maestro, porque pertenece a la gran familia de cincuenta mil docentes primarios, esparcidos por toda la geografía de Italia, y que son como los padres intelectuales de los millones de chicos que crecen contigo, unos trabajadores no conceptuados merecidamente y mal pagados, que preparan para nuestra patria una generación mejor, más próspera y desarrollada que la presente.No me satisfará el cariño que me tienes si no lo profesas también a todos los que te hacen algún bien y entre ellos ha de ocupar el primer lugar tu maestro, después de tus padres. Quiérele como querrías a un hermano mío; quiérele cuando te complace y cuando te regaña, cuando a tu parecer, obra con injusticia y cuando creas que es injusto; quiérele cuando se muestre afable y de buen humor, pero más todavía cuando lo veas triste. Quiérele siempre. Pronuncia en todo momento con respeto el nombre de maestro que, después del de padre,es el más noble y dulce que un hombre puede dar a otro.””

— Edmondo De Amicis

“!Cómo se olvidan en esos momentos los sinsabores pasados!””

— Edmondo De Amicis

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