Word: bellaza
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...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...
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