Italian
I giuochi della vita
The Games of Life
Grazia Deledda
A whole island made whole on the page, where fate deals out love and death like cards at a table.
Editions
Forthcoming
The app
Learn Italian by reading Deledda. The original beside a clear translation, read aloud, with every word glossed.
The opening
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The book
Grazia Deledda made one island into a whole world, and won the Nobel Prize for it. In the twelve stories of I giuochi della vita, Sardinia stands complete: shepherds and landowners, feast days and feuds, and over it all a fate that deals out love, property, and death like cards at a table. Her Italian is clear, grave, and close to the land, a prose of stone walls and macchia scrub, and these stories catch her at the height of her art, where the games of life are played for everything.
In the app
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The particulars
- The text
- I giuochi della vita, Grazia Deledda
- Translation
- Public-domain Italian (Deledda, d. 1936; collection published 1905). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
- Method
- The translations are our own, drafted with machine assistance and verified line by line. How the editions are made.
- The app
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $4.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
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