Project Gutenberg 2005-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 53 Capuana, Luigi 1839 1915 Il Benefattore Reading ease score: 48.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. Il benefattore -- Per un sogno -- Raccontava il dottor Maggioli: I. I microbi del Signor Sferlazzo. II. L'incredibile esperimento. III. Un geloso!!! IV. La redenzione dei capolavori. V. Due scoperte. IV L'invisible. VII. Il busto -- Care parentesi -- Enimma. Produced by Claudio Paganelli, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Prodotto in comune tra Progetto Manuzio e Project Gutenberg "Il Benefattore" by Luigi Capuana is a novel written during the late 19th century. The story unfolds in a small Sicilian town called Settefonti, where an Englishman named Pietro Kyllea arrives with grand plans to buy neglected land and transform it into a flourishing agricultural area. As he navigates local customs and interacts with the townsfolk, Kyllea's presence disrupts the status quo and begins to create a mixture of intrigue and resentment among the local gentry. The opening of the novel introduces us to the arrival of the Englishman at the Albergo del Gallo, where he is met with curiosity and skepticism by the townspeople and the local notary, La Bella. Kyllea expresses his intent to purchase several plots of seemingly worthless land in the Tirantello area. He is met with astonishment, as the local residents, particularly the landowners, are enticed by the prospect of profit but are equally wary of this foreigner's bold ambitions. Tension builds as rumors spread throughout Settefonti about Kyllea's plans, demonstrating the clash between traditional ways of thinking and the potential for change brought by this outsider. The narrative hints at deeper socio-political undercurrents involving class struggles and the transformation of rural life, setting the stage for conflict as the story progresses. (This is an automatically generated summary.) it Italian literature PQ Text IT Racconti Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 258187 257986 2024-10-03T13:32:38.507533 2023-10-04T04:14:48.812904 text/html text/html 258180 257979 2024-10-03T13:32:38.770518 2023-10-04T04:14:48.979940 text/html text/html 160458 2024-10-03T13:32:44.877477 application/epub+zip 163137 2024-10-03T13:32:40.728525 application/epub+zip 163137 2024-10-03T13:32:39.506519 application/epub+zip 288142 2024-10-03T13:32:48.005501 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270617 2024-10-03T13:32:44.145511 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 240361 2022-09-04T06:08:40.569811 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 225698 225548 2024-10-03T13:32:38.164553 2023-10-04T04:14:48.570905 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 224102 2012-10-11T21:56:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 88221 2012-10-11T21:57:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19894 2024-10-03T13:32:48.140479 application/rdf+xml 10839 2024-10-03T13:32:40.060520 image/jpeg 3105 2024-10-03T13:32:39.783507 image/jpeg 156197 2024-10-03T13:32:38.795537 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia en.wikipedia