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He calls me a poet, he styles my stories "novelli" and my heroes "failures" -- that is, he follows the beaten track.
Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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Mehel ilmus eelmine aasta kaks novelli ning reaalne kandidaat on siiski ajakirja «Looming» augustinumbris ilmunud «Minu päevad Liinaga».
Hargla sai Tuglase Ulmeguru 2009
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Rhymed verse as such does not appear till later; the work of the _novelli poetae_, as they were called by the grammarians, partly took the form of reversion to the trochaic metres which were the natural cadence of the Latin language, partly of fresh experiments in hitherto untried metres, in both cases with a large employment of assonance, and the beginnings of an accentual as opposed to a quantitative treatment.
Latin Literature 1902
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It obtruded itself in the very tales of intrigue, passion, and murder which he read to drive it from his mind, those fascinating novelli with their records of bloody hereditary vendettas, of innocent or guilty lovers alike done to death by indiscriminating cruelty.
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For here were the novelli of Boccaccio, Masaccio, and Bandello, of
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The Villa Aldobrandini recalls an ancient legend preserved in more than one of the Italian novelli; and reading between the lines of the
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He had found the plot of his drama sketched in part in one of the novelli of Ser Giovanni; but the conception of an aristocratic yet gracious lady gifted with all perfection, with which he replaced the siren of Belmont, was not, as he supposed, a portrait from life of Marie de 'Medici.
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£ Toi fpofi felici a pro di noi f • Rendetc drmai del gloriofo feme Ji Superba Italia pey novelli Eroi.
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