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Originally published in 1886, this is a patriotic hymn for the very young, written to celebrate (and instill) the values of a newly-united Italy. A teacher, welcoming the new Southern lad to his Northern classroom, (more...)

Triumph of Death [Buy Direct]

by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Translated by Georgina Harding
Original title: Il triunfo della morte

Taking its title from a series of Pisan frescoes attributed to Buffalmacco, this is the first Italian novel to celebrate Nietzsche’s theory of the superman — represented here by D’Annunzio’s hero Giorgio Aurispa. Gripped by a deathwish, (more...)

Child of Pleasure [Buy Direct]

by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Translated by Georgina Harding
Original title: Il piacere

At the heart of this novel set among a turn-of-the-century Roman aristocracy engulfed in its own decadence stands Andrea Sperelli, a refined and worldly poet. Sperelli is entangled by two conflicting loves: firstly, for the sensual Elena Muti and, secondly, (more...)

The Flame of Life

by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Original title: Il fuoco

The Flame

by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Translated by S Basnett
Original title: Il fuoco

Nocturne & Five Tales of Love and Death [Buy Direct]

by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Translated by R Rosenthal
Original title: Notturno etc.

The Victim [Buy Direct]

by Gabriele D’Annunzio
Translated by Georgina Harding
Original title: L’innocente

This is a confessional novel whose protagonist, Tullio Hermil, recounts the crime he has committed. Believing himself to be an exceptional man, a rare spirit, he allows himself, by virtue of this presumed uniqueness, to indulge in a series of marital infidelities. (more...)

That Bowling Alley on the Tiber. Tales of a Director. [Buy Direct]

by Michelangelo Antonioni
Original title: Quel bowling sul Tevere

This book is a collection of short essays and sketches of ideas for films. The latter will undoubtedly never be made but in their own way they provide as valuable an insight into Antonioni’s mental world as the films he did complete.

That world is strangely postmodern, (more...)

The Unseen

by Nanni Balestrini
Translated by Liz Heron
Original title: Gli invisibili

The early 1970s were years when Italian cities reverberated with political chants, wildcat strikes and utopian demands. Everlasting meetings convened in dry, dusty rooms full of cigarette smoke, with many of the young participants busy looking for ways to get by without regular jobs, (more...)

Artemisia

by Anna Banti
Translated by Shirley D. Caracciolo
Original title: Artemisia

The Artemisia of the title is the painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who was active in the first half of the seventeenth century but recognised as a great artist only seventy years ago by the critic Roberto Longhi. An ardent disciple of Caravaggio, Gentileschi worked in Florence and Rome, (more...)

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