Novel or Novella, Romance or Romanzo, This is the Question!

Pat Eggleton
| Tue, 12/21/2010 - 06:35

A novella is not a novel in Italian. It is a short story.

A romanzo is not a romance, but a novel.

So what do you call a book whose theme is a love story? Romanzo Rosa.

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