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, the son of Ermete Novelli. He worked in newspapers, beginning at ''La Sera'' (possibly ''

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'') in

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. Between 1927 and 1942, he ran a paper in

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called ''Il nuovo giornale di Firenze''. Novelli wrote children's books under the pen name "Yambo". ''Le avventure di Ciuffettino'' (1902) is his best known work. He died on 30 December 1943 in Florence.

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