The Education of Love is a children's novel written by the Italian writer Edmund de Amicus at 1886. There are all kinds of greatest loves in the world: teachers' love, students' love, parents' love, children's love and classmates' love ... each kind of love is not earth-shattering, but it is touching.
Edmund de Amicis 1846 101October 3 1 was born in Negria, Liguria province. He spent his childhood in Kugnaud and Turin and entered the Modena Military Academy on 1862. After graduation, Amicus took part in the war to unify Italy. At first, he was just an ordinary soldier, and later he was promoted to an officer. 1866 participated in the national liberation war against Austrian rule in Chacha, Coustau Province, which was the third Italian war of independence (i.e. the battle described in the books Young Drummer, Little Detective in Lombal and King of humberto). During the March, he wrote many novels set in the Italian war. From 65438 to 0868, Armitage published his first novel Life in the Barracks, which made him famous in the literary world. This success greatly stimulated his creative enthusiasm.
The Education of Love is a diary novel, which describes the life of Amway Ke, a fourth-grade primary school student, in a school year, interspersed with "stories" told by teachers every month, and many enlightening articles written by parents for him. Book 100, mainly composed of three parts: the ten-month diary of Italian third-grade pupil Amrico; The exhortation and inspiration articles written by his parents in their diaries; And ten short stories that the teacher read aloud in class, among which "Young Pen Geng" and "Three Thousand Miles to Find Mother" are particularly famous.
The Education of Love is the most famous work of edmundo de Amicus. As well as the betrothed couple by Italian writer alessandro manzoni, it is regarded as one of the ten novels that modern Italians must read. At the same time, in the eyes of Italians, it is also one of the ten greatest novels in Italy in the19th century.
From 65438 to 0929, The Education of Love was rated as "one of the most influential books in contemporary American culture". Scholars such as Zhu Guangqian, Feng Zikai, Mao Dun and Xia Yan all listed this book as the key reading materials of Lida Academy at that time. 1986 was included in the series representing Europe by UNESCO. 1994 was included in the required reading list for teenagers by the International Andersen Prize, the highest prize in children's literature in the world. 200 1 has been designated by the Ministry of Education as the standard extracurricular reading bibliography for the new Chinese curriculum in primary and secondary schools. Education of Love has been translated into hundreds of languages and sold over 65,438+05,000,000 copies, making it one of the most popular books in the world.