The Best Italian Novels and literature works from early XIII century to XXI
An international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Étranger awards
The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.$15.00ISBN: 9780140449303Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Classics - April 29th, 2003“The Decameron reads in some ways as a guide to social distancing and self-isolation.” —The New York Times
“The 14th-century Italian book that shows us how to survive coronavirus.” —New Statesman$17.95ISBN: 9780375727764Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - February 4th, 2003Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind.
$16.00ISBN: 9780375714795Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Pantheon - November 6th, 2007Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
$15.99ISBN: 9780156439619Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Mariner Books - October 20th, 1982Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense.
$5.95ISBN: 9780451531391Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Signet - October 6th, 2009Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.
$25.00ISBN: 9780141197494Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Classics - March 25th, 2014A stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature
$17.95ISBN: 9780199540389Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Oxford University Press, USA - August 1st, 2008The only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France--this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it.
$17.00ISBN: 9780374530099Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 10th, 2006It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935.
$32.50ISBN: 9780062905277Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Design - April 14th, 2020The enduring children’s tale The Adventures of Pinocchio, retold for a new generation in this spectacular full-color deluxe gift edition, packed with beautiful artwork and seven interactive features created by the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise, MinaLima.
Originally published in 1883, The AdventureEmail or call for price.ISBN: 9781400044221Availability: BackorderedPublished: Everyman's Library - July 19th, 2005Giorgio Bassani’s acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
$17.00ISBN: 9780143118596Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Penguin Books - March 29th, 2011"Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level." -The New York Times
From the author of Heaven and Earth, a sensational novel about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone elseEmail or call for price.ISBN: 9781590171158Availability: Hard to FindPublished: NYRB Classics - November 30th, 2004Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one.
$7.95ISBN: 9780451531414Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Signet - October 6th, 2009In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780451531421Availability: BackorderedPublished: Signet - October 6th, 2009In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante?s canticle crystallizes the great poet?s immortal conception of the aspiring soul.
$21.00ISBN: 9780141395876Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Classics - April 28th, 2015A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
$16.00ISBN: 9780684826806Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - September 1st, 1995The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and “Italian citizen of Jewish raceEmail or call for price.ISBN: 9780199535354Availability: BackorderedPublished: Oxford University Press, USA - April 1st, 2009In The Liberation of Jerusalem (1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade.
![Adventures of Pinocchio, The [Ilustrated with Interactive Elements] Cover Image](https://images.booksense.com/images/books/277/905/FC9780062905277.JPG)
