Italian word
novella
short story (a piece of short fiction); also news (archaic)
Looks like
novel
a short novel (longer than a short story, shorter than a novel)
⚠️ The trap
In Italian 'novella' is a short prose tale (like those in the Decameron). In English a 'novella' is a longer form — between short story and novel. Italian 'romanzo' = English 'novel'.
To say "a short novel (longer than a short story, shorter than a novel)" in Italian:
racconto lungo / romanzo breve (for a novella in the English sense)
"novella" in English means:
short story (a piece of short fiction); also news (archaic)
Example
"Boccaccio scrisse cento novelle nel Decameron."
"Boccaccio wrote one hundred short stories in the Decameron."
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