Scialle nero luigi pirandello biography
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“Wedding Night” (“Prima notte”)
Translated by Steve Eaton
How to cite this work:
Pirandello, Luigi. “Wedding Night” (“Prima notte”), tr. Steve Eaton. In Stories for a Year, eds. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka, Digital Edition, www.pirandellointranslation.org, 2021.
One of Pirandello’s early stories, “Wedding Night” was first published in the journal Il Marzocco on November 18, 1900 and then collected into his volume of short stories printed four years later, White and Black (Bianche e nere, Turin: Streglio, 1904). It was subsequently included in the first Collection of his Stories for a Year, Black Shawl (Scialle Nero), published by Bemporad in Florence in 1922. The full text of the original short story as it was printed in Il Marzocco is included in the notes of Mario Costanzo’s Mondadori edition of Novelle per un anno published in the series I Meridiani (Volume 1, Book 2, pp. 1118-1124).
Il Marzocco was a frequent venue for many of Pirandello’
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Black Shawl
Scialle nero – From the collection “Black Shawl” of 1922 – in Short Stories for a Year by Luigi Pirandello
Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli
©️ 2023 – Enzo Martinelli
Black Shawl, by Luigi Pirandello 3/5
The understanding was easy.
The next morning, Eleonora spoke maternally to Gerlando: she left him in charge of everything, free to do as he pleased, as if there were no ties between them. For herself, she asked only to be left there, singing, in that little room, together with the old maid of the house, who had seen her born.
Gerlando, who had emerged from the balcony late at night, hardened by the humidity, to sleep on the sofa in the dining room, now, so surprised in his sleep, with a great desire to crinkle his eyes with his fists, opening his mun in an effort to frown, because he wanted to show not so much that he understood as that he was convinced, he said yes, yes, with his head. But his father and
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