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  • The Outcast

    A Novel

    by Luigi Pirandello ...
    Translated by Bradford A. Masoni ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    A young wife in a nineteenth-century Sicilian village, Marta is deeply in love with her husband Rocco and pregnant with his child. But when Rocco discovers a letter written to Marta by a would-be suitor, he falsely accuses her of infidelity and banishes her from their home. Soon the whole village turns against the supposed adulteress, setting in motion a series of tragic events that culminates in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions

    Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini

    by Virginia Agostinelli, Fabio Benincasa, Francesca D’Alessandro Behr, Daniela Bini, Millicent Marcus, Fulvio Orsitto, Flaviano Pisanelli, Francesco Rosetti, Daniela Privitera, Ilaria Lanzarini, Giulia Tellini, William Van Watson ...
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    Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues to inspire students, scholars, and intellectuals alike to question the status quo. This collection of ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture

    by Daniela Bini ...
    Series series
    The power exercised by the mother on the son in Mediterranean cultures has been amply studied. Italy is a special case in the Modern Era and the phenomenon of Mammismo italiano is indeed well known. Scholars have traced this obsession with the mother figure to the Catholic cult of the Virgin Mary, but in fact, it is more ancient. What has not been adequately addressed however, is how Mammismo ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy

    Imagination and Thought across Media

    by Daniela Bini, Daniela Bombara, Claudia Consolati, Julie Dashwood, Carlo Di Lieto, Pietro Frassica, Daniela Gangale, Kyle Gillette, Andrea Malaguti, John Mastrogianakos ...
    Series series
    This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist. The volume re-examines traditional critical notions central to the study of Pirandello by focusing on the importance of the visual imagination in his poetics and ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • A Nest of Vipers

    by Andrea Camilleri ...
    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
    Series Book 21 - An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
    **“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna LeonMontalbano investigates the death of wealthy accountant Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses and family secrets.**Inspector Montalbano enjoys simple pleasures: delicious food, walks along the water, the occasional smoke—yet these ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Conformist

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Series series Italia
    Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Woman of Rome

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Translated by Tami Calliope ...
    Series series Italia
    The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravia’s best and best-known novel — The Woman of Rome. It’s the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and could never quite identify the moment when she traded her private dream of home and children for the life of a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Glass Souls

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    Series Book 8 - The Commissario Ricciardi Mysteries
    The eighth Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery from the author of The Bottom of Your Heart "will surprise readers at every turn" ( La Reppublica).In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione. Contentment for Ricciardi proves as elusive as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nameless Serenade

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    Series Book 9 - The Commissario Ricciardi Mysteries
    The ninth Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery is "noir with a heart, haunting and beautiful . . . A literary thriller of exceptional quality" ( NB Magazine).Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and fortune as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bottom of Your Heart

    Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    Series Book 7 - The Commissario Ricciardi Mysteries
    The seventh Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery is "an intricately layered whodunit set in Fascist Naples . . . A richly textured story" ( Kirkus Reviews).In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Veretti's Dark Vengeance

    by Lucy Gordon ...
    Series Book 4 - Royal and Ruthless
    Arrogant Italian nobleman Salvatore Veretti is furious to hear that a young, beautiful model has inherited the company that was rightfully his. Clearly she's after the family gold! Salvatore will heartlessly reclaim what he's owed—and he'll show this impudent female just how out of her depth she is.But after meeting naively determined Helena, Salvatore changes tactics…. No longer satisfied with ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • Agostino

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Translated by Michael F. Moore ...
    Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD