亚米契斯（1846－1908），意大利作家。早年曾就读于都灵文法学校，后转入军事学校，毕业后参军，于1866、1868年参加了库斯托扎战役，以自己从军的经历写成《意大利军人素描》，一炮而红，此后以写作谋生。
亚米契斯广泛游历，写作了《西班牙》、《荷兰》、《摩洛哥》、《伊斯坦布尔》等游记。1886年，亚米契斯发表了平生最著名的小说《爱的教育》（原名《一个男孩的心》），至今仍在读者中享有盛誉。此外，他还写作了许多诗歌、短篇小说及儿童故事。
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
OCTOBER
The First Day of School
Our Master
An Accident
The Calabrian Boy
My Classmates
A Noble Action
My School Mistress of the Upper First
In an Attic
The School
The Little Patriot of Padua
NOVEMBER
The Chimney Sweep
All Souls'Day
My Friend Garrone
The Charcoal Man and the Gentleman
My Brother's School-Mistress
My Mother
My Companion Coretti
The Principal of the School
The Soldiers
The Protector of Nelli
The First of the Class
The Little Vidette of Lomdardy
The Poor
DECEMBER
The Trading Boy
Vanity
The First Snow Storm
The Little Mason
A Snow Ball
The School-Mistress
In the Home of the Wounded Man
The Little Florentine Writer
Will
Gratitude
FANUARY
The Substitute
Stardi's Library
The Son of the Blacksmith
A Nice Visit
The Funeral of Vittorio Emanuele
Franti Expelled from School
The Sardinian Drummer-Boy
The Love of Our Country
Envy
Franti's Mother
Hope
FEBRUARY
A Well-Awarded Medal
Good Resolutions
The Little Railway Train
Pride
The Wounds of Work
The Prisoner
Papa's Nurse
The Workshop
The Little Clown
The Last Day of Carnival
The Blind Boys
The Sick Master
The Street
MARCH
The Evening Schools
The Fight
The Boys' Relatives
Number 78
The Little Dead Boy
The Eve of the 14th of March
The Distribution of Prizes
A Quarrel
My Sister
Blood of Romagna
The Little Mason Seriously III
The Count Cavour
APRIL
Spring
King Umberto
The Infant Asylum
At the Gymnasium
My Father's Teacher
Convalescence
The Friend of the Workman
Garrone's Mother
Giuseppe Mazzini
Civic Valor
MAY
The Children with the Rickets
Sacrifice
The Fire
From the Apennines to the Andes
Summer
Poetry
The Deaf and Dumb Girl
FUNE
Garibaldi
The Army
Italy
Thirty-two Degrees Centigrade
My Father
In the Country
The Distribution of Prizes to the Workmen
My Dead School-Mistress
Thanks
A Shipwreck
FULY
The Last Page from My Mother
The Examination
The Last Examination
Farewell
class saluted me from the door of her room and said:"Enrico,you go upstairs this year,I shall not even see youpass！"and looked at me with sadness.The principal hadaround him mothers in distress because there was no roomfor their children,and it seemed to me that his beard was alittle whiter than it was last year.I also noticed that some ofthe boys had grown taller and stouter.On the ground floor,where the divisions had already beenmade,there were children of the first and lowest grade whodid not want to enter the classroom and who balked likedonkeys;it was necessary to push them in;some escapedagain from their benches;others,seeing their parents leave,commenced to cry,and the father or mother would return tooffer consolation or take them home again,and the teacherswere in despair.My little brother was to enter the class of Mistress Delcati;I was put in that of Master Perboni up on the first floor.At ten o'clock we were all in the classroom;fifty-four ofus;only fifteen or sixteen of my classmates of the secondgrade,among whom was Derossi,the one who always winsthe first prize.The schoolroom seemed small and sad to me.Iwas thinking of the woods and mountains where I had spentthe summer.I was also thinking of my teacher of the secondclass;he was so good and always laughed with us,and sosmall that he seemed like a companion,and I was sorry notto see him there with his bushy red hair.Our present teacheris tall with long hair and no beard,and he has a straightwrinkle across his forehead.His voice is heavy and he looksat us fixedly,as though to read our inmost thoughts;！donot think he ever laughs.I was saying to myself:".
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