DOI:  10.53136/979122181938020 
                                                        
                                                            Pages: 279-291
                                                        
                              
                                                                                                
                                
                                                            
                             Publication date: June 2025
                            
                                                        Publisher: Aracne
                                                        
                                                                    
                                    
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                    The novel La bambina sputafuoco by Giulia Binando Melis fits within the framework of Narrative Medicine, an interdisciplinary field that intertwines autopathographic writing and children’s literature. Through the voice of a sick child, the work symbolically re-elaborates the clinical experience, restoring to narrative a therapeutic, educational, and humanizing function capable of giving meaning to illness and the care relationship.