Love and Gymnastics

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Love and Gymnastics
Author Edmondo De Amicis
Original titleAmore e ginnastica
LanguageItalian
Publisher
Publication date
January–July 1891
Publication placeItaly
Pages141

Love and Gymnastics (Italian : Amore e ginnastica) is an 1891 novella by the Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis. It is set in Turin and follows a man who falls in love with and tries to seduce a female gymnastics teacher, but is continuously rejected because she does not want to be distracted from spreading Emilio Baumann  [ it ]'s ideas about physical education. [1] [2] [3]

The story was published in the magazine Nuova Antologia  [ it ] from January to July 1891. It was included in the 1892 volume Fra scuola e casa. [4]

It was the basis for the 1973 film Amore e ginnastica , directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Chapman, David; Gori, Gigliola (2010). "Strong, Athletic and Beautiful: Edmondo De Amicis and the Ideal Italian Woman". The International Journal of the History of Sport . 27 (11): 1968–1987. doi:10.1080/09523367.2010.494390.
  2. ↑ Burgos Ortega, Inés (2011). ""Amor y gimnástica" en Italia 1892". Agora para la educación física y el deporte (in Spanish). 13 (2): 229–243. ISSN   1578-2174.
  3. ↑ S. W. (5 October 2011). "Cruelty with a smile" . The Economist . Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  4. ↑ Ubbidiente, Roberto (2013). L'Officina del poeta: Studi su Edmondo De Amicis. Berlin: Frank & Timme  [ de ]. p. 239. ISBN   978-3-86596-536-3.
  5. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN   8876059350.
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