Do you like books. I read 2 or three a week! 
Yes. I love novels. That is pretty much any relatively long work of fiction
Right now I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostovo. 
Italians have a different word for a short story called a latter.
Really? Interesting. I have a very good Italian friend who lives in Australia. I will have to ask him about it! 
If you like novels and short stories you probably have heard of the literary device of a story within a story.
For sure I have. My favorite novelist is Jane Austen, she was so before her time. 
Yes. She wrote six major novels that comment on British landed gentry. Have you read them?