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Un giorno d'autunno, ritornando da una caccia in palude, don Stefano Arca fu assalito da febbre così violenta che quasi batté la fronte sul lastrico del cortile quando, giunto a casa, smontò da cavallo. A stento si mise a letto. «Stene, Stene, cos'hai avuto?», gli chiese il vecchio padre, avvicinandosi a piccoli passi incerti, e chinandosi a mani giunte sul letto. Nel far con esile voce l'ansiosa domanda, la piccola persona del vecchio tremava. Stefano, con gli occhi chiusi e il volto grigio, non rispose; don Piane restò a lungo davanti al letto, sempre più curvandosi, con le dita nodose intrecciate, e le pupille velate da una triste visione di morte. Dopo qualche istante si mosse; sem...
Deledda was born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a middle-class family, to Giovanni Antonio Deledda and Francesca Cambosu, as the fourth of seven siblings. She attended elementary school (the minimum required at the time) and was then educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. It was during this time that she started displaying an interest in writing short novels, mostly inspired by the life of Sardinian peasants and their struggles. Her teacher encouraged her to submit her writing to a newspaper and, at age 13, her first story was published in a local journal. Some of Deledda's early works were published in the fashion magazine L'ultima moda between 1888 and 1889. In 1890 Trevisani published Nell'azzurro (Into the Blue), her first collection of short stories. Deledda's main focus was the representation of poverty and the struggles associated with it through a combination of imaginary and autobiographical elements. Her family wasn't particularly supportive of her desire to write.
