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    Italian Imbroglios
    Italian Imbroglios
    Italian Imbroglios
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    Italian Imbroglios

    By Lara Biyuts

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    "Italian Imbroglios" is 5 tales about turnskins and other metamorphoses, imaginative or real, which took place in the past, distant and not so distant, in Italy. Historical, paranormal, humour. The last of the tales is the next story in the OMG series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLara Biyuts
    Release dateApr 15, 2014
    ISBN9781310342141
    Italian Imbroglios
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    Lara Biyuts

    Lara Biyuts (aka Lara Biuts) author of 14 books of fiction, writer of the RevueBlanche.blogspot, collage maker for her bookcovers, translator, who signs her translations as Larisa Biyuts. Her novella A Handful of Blossoms is 2012 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention. Her works are accepted for anthologies: Cat’s Cradle Time Yarns (Time Yarns Anthologies), Authors off the Shelf (Lazy Beagle Entertainment), Of Words and Water 2014 (Words and Water group supporting WaterAid), Hope Springs a Turtle, The Black Rose of Winter, and Greek Fire (Lost Tower Publications). Her old tale and poems are featured on TheHolidayCafe.com (2013). Her poetry is on the monthly eJournal The Criterion (April, 2014). She is a Goodreads librarian.Her novel La Lune Blanche is the first of the series. "The novel is the world where pleasures of life and pleasures of art are just norms." (Turner Maxwell Books)“The author produces a setting which is detailed and believable, and also characters which the reader gets to know well. Also the plot moves along nicely through-out the story.” (April O., facebook.com)“Lara Biyuts’ writing is deep and multi layered.” (Maggie Mack Books, maggiemackbooks.com)“Lara Biyuts comes to us from the great tradition of Nabokov and Conrad, enriching our literature in English with the rich cosmopolitain perspecitve of the East European tradition leading back to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Like those great masters she takes us also into the shadow world of sexuality with its hidden psychology, possession and sensual revelations.” (Robert Sheppard, Author of the novel Spiritus Mundi, linkedin.com)“The secret of Lara Biyuts is her tales. The secret of her tales is their charm. The secret of the charm is Lara Biyuts.” (Les Hudson, goodreads.com)Favorite quotes:“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!” (Mikhail Bulgakov)“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.” (Mikhail Bulgakov)for emails: larisabeeATyahooDOTcom

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      Italian Imbroglios - Lara Biyuts

      Italian Imbroglios

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      Lara Biyuts

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      Italian Imbroglios

      Copyright 2014 by Lara Biyuts

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      Italian Imbroglios

      "I shall be found by the fire, suppose,

      O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age,

      While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows

      And I turn the page, and I turn the page,

      Not verse now, only prose!"

      (Robert Browning. By The Fire-Side)

      Funny Arithmetic for Husbands

      In the old and distant past, the life in the town of Bologna was ever so much troublesome solely because of turnskins. Where did that misfortune come from? One Enrico Gozzano, a simple and good family man, god-fearing, thrifty and honest, had a chance to know of that. He nearly got ruined and lost his wife because of that, though neither of the spouses was at death’s door. Keeping silence about much gruesome and murky that happened to people at Bologna, he ordered his children and grandchildren to settle neither in the city nor in the vicinity.

      At Bologna there was the famous University; at the University there were lots of students. Students were young men; besides, two centuries after the University’s foundation, it was clear that most of the students were rah-rah boys, fearless to God and able to do any trick, even a most sinful. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop, and at Bologna, the devil especially enjoyed turning the students into animals of all kinds, so, lots of turnskins could come from there.

      A short while after their wedding, Enrico and his wife Renette settled in the vicinity of the city. Renette was a pretty woman with a playful temper, a bit of fluff to someone’s taste, but Enrico trusted his wife and he never felt jealous. The other husband could get blindly jealous when seeing the groups of students walking by his house, but Enrico trusted his wife. How much did he trust? His story will answer the question. We never know how we love till life puts us on trial.

      One day, Enrico bought a good mule, and he couldn’t get enough seeing the animal: tough, strong, with silky hair soft chocolate-coloured. Some buyers offered Enrico good deals of money for his mule, but Enrico was not about to sell his recent acquisition. One student, rich and of

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