Vamba

Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca is an Italian novel by Vamba (aka Luigi Bertelli). It was first published, between 1907 and 1908, in sequential installments in the children magazine Il giornalino della Domenica, and in 1912 it was published in book format. Set in Tuscany and partly in Rome, the book is written in a diary form, the diary of Giannino Stoppani, nicknamed "Gian Burrasca" because of his exuberant and restless behavior. The author Vamba also cured the illustrations of the book.

Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca

Il giornalino di Gianburrasca

Vamba è lo pseudonimo dello scrittore fiorentino Luigi Bertelli (1858-1920). La sua opera più conosciuta, Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca, scritto nel 1920, è un brioso diario di un ragazzo vivacissimo ed un po’ ribelle, in cui l’autore fonde felicemente propositi didascalici ed un brillante umorismo.

The diary of nine-year old Giannino Stoppani, also known as Gian Burrasca, tells of his misadventures and endured injustices.

Story of children, tired of studying arithmetic and Latin, who wish to become ants. They get their wish and discover that the daily life of insects is also complicated.

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