Region: Italy (90 Listed volumes)
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Piero Boitani
A New Sublime
Boitani’s presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. -
Marco Malvaldi
The Measure of a Man
Five hundred years after Leonardo’s death, Marco Malvaldi combines literature, science, history, and mystery to bring back to life one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance. -
Helena Janeczek
The Girl with the Leica
The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women’s lives. -
Andrea Marcolongo
The Ingenious Language
For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
The Night of Rome
Sharp, dark, and taut, The Night of Rome is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events. -
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A Girl Returned
WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ( Kirkus Reviews ・ Washington Post ・ Dallas Morning News) A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
Book 3 in de Giovanni’s bestselling “Bastards of Pizzofalcone” series is set in contemporary Naples during season of cold winds, political hijinks, and murder. A heinous, double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and the rest of... -
Andrea Camilleri
The Sect of Angels
Based on a true story and told with the pacing, humor, and thrills of a Mediterranean mystery, Andrea Camilleri’s new novel tells of a turn-of-the-century Sicilian scandal that revealed a tendency that is with us still: the refusal to accept the truth. The lawyer and journalist Matteo... -
Fabio Bartolomei
We Are Family
Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he, alone, will save the human race. But first, he has to solve a far more urgent problem: finding a home for his family. He exists, like many kids, in a realm located somewhere between reality... -
Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend (HBO Tie-in Edition)
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila.