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Italian · Beginner

La principessa sul pisello

Name: La principessa sul pisello
Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Adapted from The Princess and the Pea

By Hans Christian Andersen

A queen devises an unusual test to find out whether a visitor is a real princess.

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Il principe vuole una vera principessa

The prince wants a real princess

Un principe vuole sposare una vera principessa. Per questo viaggia in tutto il mondo. Incontra molte principesse, ma non riesce mai a essere sicuro che siano vere principesse. C'è sempre qualcosa che non va. Alla fine torna a casa triste: desidera ancora trovare una vera principessa da sposare.

A prince wants to marry a true princess. So he travels all over the world. He meets many princesses, but he can never be sure that they are true princesses. There is always something wrong. At last, he returns home sadly: he still wants to find a true princess to marry.

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