Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): at four-and-a-half years old he was left to fend for himself on the streets of northern italy for the next four years , living in various orphanages and roving through towns with groups of other homeless children.
Output (English): when he was four and a half years old he was left on the streets of northern italy . for the next four years he stived for his food . he lived in various orphanages and roved through the towns . he was wandering with other homelss children.