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This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating...

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378022Author Cristina CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This compelling guide uncovers Sicily's multi-faceted personality through famous literary figures. Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the...

'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino,...

"Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." THE SUNDAY TIMES A delightful collection of original essays on reading and writing. From the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend, The Lying...

With recent attention from The New Yorker and a big increase in sales, it's clear Ginzburg's work still resonates with readers. A fresh new package and layout will appeal to established fans and attract new readers. Will include a new foreword or...

The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and...

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are...

This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little...

This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little...

A stunning classic set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis - Naples - in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These lively and superbly written stories helped inspire Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. Ortese's work was also championed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102313Author Lorenzo De' MediciFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780789331328Author Oriana FallaciFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Universe PublishingPublisher Universe PublishingWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 225mm...

Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior written by Giovanni Della Casa (1503-56) for the benefit of his nephew, a young Florentine destined for greatness. In the voice of a cranky yet genial old uncle, Della Casa offers the distillation of what he has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156913218Author Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457971Author Natalia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590519974Author Pier Paolo PasoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again ...So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may sound...

'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel' The Times 'Utterly gripped me from beginning to end'...

A scholarly edition of works by Francesco Guicciardini. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780199607679Author Francesco GuicciardiniFormat...

The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction investigates the representation of ecological issues in Italian science fiction and film from the 1950s to the present. Taking into account a previously understudied corpus, the book reveals how Italian science...

Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts,...

Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts,...

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative...

Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also...

A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most in English for the first timeThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy's political unification. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943813872Author Guido GozzanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Snuggly BooksPublisher Snuggly BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942801429Author Guido BuzzelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Floating World ComicsPublisher Alternative Comics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987463784Author Vladislav ZhukovFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Vladislav ZhukovPublisher Vladislav ZhukovWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826531Author Aniello IannuzziFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty...

First full English-language translation of the source of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, with a reprint of the original Moutier version and an explanatory introduction.Book InformationISBN 9781512811957Author Nathaniel Edward GriffinFormat HardbackPage...

Gabriele D'Annunzio was an internationally renowned artist and one of the most prominent public figures in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels and poetry stirred the enthusiasm of James Joyce and Henry James in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616401467Author Professor Alessandro ManzoniFormat HardbackPage Count 674Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 984g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616401450Author Professor Alessandro ManzoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 844g

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925965827Author Elaina Battista-ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Vine Leaves PressPublisher Vine Leaves PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528705882Author John ConingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint White PressPublisher White PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590510Author Robert BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645844665Author Matteo BandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Aldila Press Pty LtdPublisher Aldila Press Pty LtdWeight(grams) 299g