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"..runs around nailing other girls with Freundenstacheln.."
"Hearing ...... with heavy accent is the cutest thing I can imagine.... "
Gosh, but this just seems, how shall I put it, very lesbian.
Just kidding, don't get mad.

The over-sexualized pictures (most of them are more or less naked and some with overly large breasts) scream "lesbian" in every way: The whole fictional organization of Rosenkreuz consists only of female members.

Could you recommend me some Italian literature, preferably old (free of copyright problems)?
I've read mostly English and German stuff.

Latin, medieval, renaissance, 19th century, 20th century literature?
Poetry, novels, short stories, or nonfiction (essays)? Be forewarned that apart from ancient latin, I detest italian literature almost entirely.

I only love north-american, german, russian, and british literature, and specifically 19th and early 20th century literature.

"Be forewarned that apart from ancient latin, I detest italian literature almost entirely." → Why is that?

Just want to broaden my mind.
19th/20th century novels, short stories. With poetry you can usually make me run away (very few exceptions)

"Why is that?" Because what I read is trivial, or ridiculous, or "lightweight", or copied from foreign literatures: no depth of thought.

Anyway I reccomend Luigi Pirandello (Nobel Prize for literature) "Novelle per un anno" (novels for a year).

Unfortunately copyright kicks in for the German translation (partial ones, two books from the 1960s). Insanely hard to get.

Will look if there is something usable within here:
https://www.pirandellointranslation.org/

Why don't you borrow it from the public library?

Didn't I tell you that? Our infrastructure is collapsing at increasing speed. This country is done for!
Public library is underfunded for decades. They can hardly take care of having current mainstream/bestsellers available – sometimes(!) including online/epub versions. Everything else… sold for pennies over the last 20 years (no money for storage).
Anything that is special → no chance (already verified it)

Try if you can find a translation of this author: Edmondo De Amicis - Cuore (Heart).

Got it. It is on the Internet Archive. Scanned book. So old version that it is still in Fraktur!

And now my tablet used for reading PDF files has gone mad.
https://gbatemp.net/profile-posts/152665/

If the tablet doesn't start functioning normal again, I'll try the TrekStor eBook reader.

Tablet is a little better now; still far from normal, but good enough for reading
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But… What am I reading here? (Besides the fact that is is fun to read anything printed in Fraktur)
Only a few pages in yet… it seems to be hymn of praise targeted on school/education/teachers?! And, almost forgot, already some indirect praising of military (maybe pro nationalism?)

Oh, goodie, if it continues that way, this is gonna send crank up my mind to max rotation!
Dissecting this one is going to be major fun!

This late '800 novel was originally directed at middle schools, but it was successful among people of all ages and classes because of the veracious stories of everyday life of poor people,the precise and touching description of relationships of antagonism, friendship, and solidarity among kids, and their difficult growth amid hardship, misery, and violence. Author's nationalism is only an irrelevant outline.

Italian literature offers little better, sadly. I know better and have read more german literature (translated, of course): e.g., I am almost finishing the complete collection of E.T.A. Hoffman's horror short stories: this is great literature, written by a multifaceted genius. I recommend him rather.

E.T.A Hoffmann was mad in my opinion. We read "Der Sandmann" at school.
Very much prefer Heinrich von Kleist → "Michael Kohlhaas". I failed hard at finding any sensible file format in translation… but the Duck sent me to an HTML version by searching for "Michele Kohlhaas Traduzione"
I hate it when somebody tries to translate names! The protagonist's name is not "Michele"

There is also →"Die Marquise von O...."← and some more.

https://www.rodoni.ch/BIBLIOTECHINA2/KLEIST/racconti.html

Why no epub for download??

I have already read "The Broken Pitcher" and "The Prince of Homburg" by that author. Did you think maybe I didn't know him? Among other things, I am an expert on german/ british/ american gothic literature.
Hoffmann a mad? He may be, like all geniuses: this does not detract from the beauty of his stories: The Sandman is wonderful: favorite tale of Sigmund Freud!