These two small volumes contain pretty little Italian stories, ingeniously calculated
to answer the purpose for which the
author tells us they were written; namely, that of conveying instruction in
the Italian language through the medium of a moral narrative. In his Dedication, he
asserts this to be his plan:

The end, (he says) which I propose to myself, is to combine instruction with
morality; and at the same time that I am teaching the Italian language, to give
such examples of virtue rewarded and vice punished, as may lead the minds of my
young scholars to the knowlege of morals on which the happiness of their lives
will in a great measure depend.

The stories are very amusing, and the comic and the grave have their several
merits.