Novella Definition

nō-vĕlə
novellas, novelle
noun
novellas
A short prose narrative, usually with a moral and often satirical, as any of the tales in Boccaccio's Decameron.
Webster's New World

Short novel.

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Other Word Forms of Novella

Noun

Singular:
novella
Plural:
novellas

Origin of Novella

  • Italian novel1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Novella Sentence Examples

  • The Historia novella is annalistic in form.

  • Hardy edited the Gesta regum and Historia novella for the English Historical Society in 1840, and put the criticism of the manuscripts on a sound basis.

  • A Vita Sancti Patricii and Miracula Sancti Benigni are mentioned in the prologue to the book on Glastonbury; a metrical life of St iElfgyfu is quoted in the Gesta pontificum; Chronica tribus libellis are mentioned in the prologue to the Historia novella, and a fragment of them is apparently preserved in the Brit.

  • In 1267 he entered the Dominican house of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and in 1272 that of St Catherine in Pisa.

  • The Badia, Santo Spirito, Santa Maria Novella, are a few among the many famous and beautiful churches of Florence.

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