Italian short stories
Brief peninsular tales
Italian short stories are brief works of fiction written in Italian or by Italian authors.
The form has a distinguished tradition from Boccaccio's *Decameron* through modern masters like Calvino and Moravia.
The term often appears in academic contexts or as a genre category: I'm taking a course on Italian short stories, an anthology of Italian short stories.
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