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| x Ernesto | Ernesto | Novel |
Ernesto is an unfinished novel by Umberto Saba, written in 1953 but not published until 1975, long after the author’s death.
Ernesto, a 16-year-old boy living in Trieste in 1898, has an affair with a 28-year-old worker simply called "the man"....
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| x Baudolino | Baudolino | Speculative fiction |
Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a young man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.
Baudolino was translated into English in 2001 by William Weaver. The novel presented a number...
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| x Il Turno | The Turn | Novel |
The Turn (Italian: Il Turno) is the name of Luigi Pirandello's second novel. Originally published in Catania in 1902 by the editor Niccolò Giannotta, it was republished by the Fratelli Treves publishing house, along with the novella Lontano, with...
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| x The Taqwacores | The Taqwacores | Novel |
The Taqwacores is the debut novel by Michael Muhammad Knight, depicting a fictitious Islamic punk rock scene. The title is a portmanteau of taqwa, an Islamic concept of love and fear for Allah, and Hardcore, the punk rock subgenre. Some of the most...
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The Betrothed | Historical novel | Don Abbondio |
The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language.
Set in northern Italy...
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| x The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana | The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana | Historical novel |
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (original Italian title: La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana) is a novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in 2004, and an English language translation by Geoffrey Brock was...
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The Tigers of Mompracem (original title: Le Tigri di Mompracem) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1900. It features his most famous character, Sandokan.
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| x Foucault's Pendulum | Il Pendolo Di Foucault | Speculative fiction | Belbo |
Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the translation into English by William Weaver appeared a year later.
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| x The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily | The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily | Children's literature |
La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia is an Italian children’s book written and illustrated by Dino Buzzati which was translated into English by Frances Lobb as The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily.
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| x L'Esclusa | Novel |
L'Esclusa (English: The Excluded Woman) was Luigi Pirandello's first novel. Written in 1893 with the title Marta Ajala, it was originally published in episodes in the Roman newspaper La Tribuna from the 29th of June to the 16th of August 1901 with...
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| x Zeno's Conscience | Zeno's Conscience (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) |
Zeno's Conscience (Italian: La coscienza di Zeno) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Svevo. The main character is Zeno Cosini and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist. Throughout the novel...
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| x The Island of the Day Before | The Island of the Day Before | Novel |
The Island of the Day Before (L'isola del giorno prima) is a 1994 novel by Umberto Eco. This work contains references to Eco's previous novels. In one example, there is a mention of a crucial plot point from Eco's first novel The Name of the Rose....
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| x One, No one and One Hundred Thousand | One, No one and One Hundred Thousand | Novel |
One, No one and One Hundred Thousand (Italian: Uno, Nessuno e Centomila) is a 1936 novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an...
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| x The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The | Historical novel |
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) is a historical novel by Giorgio Bassani, published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of...
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| x The Name of the Rose | Name of the Rose | Historical novel | Adso of Melk |
The Name of the Rose, a novel by Umberto Eco, is a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title Il nome della rosa, it appeared in 1983 in an English translation by William Weaver....
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: vbi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse docet. |
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili /hiːpˌnɛəroʊtəˈmɑːkiːə pəˈliːfəˌliː/ (from Greek hypnos, ‘sleep’, eros, ‘love’, and mache, ‘fight’), called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream, is a romance said to be by Francesco Colonna and a famous example...
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| x Invisible Cities | Invisible Cities | Novel |
Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore.
The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an...
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| x Involuntary Witness | Involuntary Witness | Novel |
Involuntary Witness (Italian: Testimone Inconsapevole) is a legal thriller by Italian writer Gianrico Carofiglio, published originally in 2002 and translated into English by Patrick Creagh in 2005.
At the beginning of the novel, Italian lawyer Guido...
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| x Master of the Game | Master of the Game | Thriller |
Master of the Game is a novel by Sidney Sheldon, first published in hardback format in 1982. Spanning six generations in the lives of the fictional MacGregor/Blackwell family, the critically acclaimed novel debuted at number one on the New York...
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| x Silk | Silk | Novel |
Silk (Italian: Seta is a 1996 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. It was translated into English in 1997 by Guido Waldman. A new English translation by Ann Goldstein was published in 2006.
The novel tells the story of a French silkworm...
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| x Cosmicomics | Cosmicomics | Science Fiction |
Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around...
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| x T zero | t zero | Science Fiction |
t zero (original title: Ti con zero) is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, t0 , is considered by the...
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems-Ptolemaic and Copernican | Science |
The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. It was translated to Latin...
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| x Two New Sciences | Two New Sciences | Science |
The Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze, 1638) was Galileo's final book and a sort of scientific testament covering much of his work in physics...
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| x The City of the Sun |
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The City of the Sun | Philosophy |
The City of the Sun (Italian: La città del Sole; Latin: Civitas Solis) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work.
The work was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after...
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| x Treatise on the Hexagram An evolutional system of music notation |
The Treatise on the Hexagram offer a music notation reform based on the
theory Pentagram notation, it represents an evolution,
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Pinocchio | Children's literature | Monstro |
The Adventures of Pinocchio ( /pɪˈnoʊki.oʊ/, US dict: pĭ·nō′·kē·ō; Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio) is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and...
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| x The Pirates of Malaysia |
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The Pirates of Malaysia (Italian: I pirati della Malesia) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1896. It features his most famous character, Sandokan, and is a sequel to The Tigers of Mompracem.
Salgari...
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| x Son of the Red Corsair |
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The Son of The Red Corsair | Adventure novel |
The Son of the Red Corsair (original title: Il figlio del corsaro rosso) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1908. The novel was adapted for the silver screen in Italy in 1959.
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| x The Two Tigers |
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The Two Tigers (original title: Le due tigri) is the fourth adventure novel in the Sandokan series written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1904.
India, 1857. Just when Tremal-Naik's life was getting back to normal, the Thugs of the...
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| x Nonovvio | Science Fiction |
Nonovvio is an Italian novel by Simone Brunozzi. The main character is Riccardo Leone. The book is going to be translated in English around December 2007.
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| x The Black Corsair | Adventure novel |
The Black Corsair is an 1898 adventure novel written by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari. Set in the Caribbean during the golden age of piracy, the novel narrates the exploits of Emilio Roccanera, Lord of Ventimiglia and his attempts to avenge his...
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| x Rounding the Mark | Crime Fiction |
Rounding the Mark (orig. Italian Il giro di boa) is a 2003 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2006 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the seventh novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
Frustrated by his...
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| x If on a winter's night a traveler | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | Speculative fiction |
If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveler. Every odd...
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| x Q |
Q is a novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 1999. The novel is set in Europe during the 16th century, and deals with Protestant reformation movements.
"Luther Blissett" was a nom de plume for four Italian authors, Roberto Bui,...
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Heart: a school-boy's journal | Children's literature |
Heart (Italian: Cuore) is a children's novel by the Italian author Edmondo De Amicis who was a novelist, journalist, short story writer, and poet. The novel is known to be his best known work to this day, having been inspired by his own children...
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| x The Tartar Steppe | The Tartar Steppe |
The Tartar Steppe (Italian: Il deserto dei Tartari, literally The Desert of the Tartars) is a novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940. The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the...
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| x Letter to a child never born | Letter to a child never born | Fiction |
Letter to a Child Never Born (Italian: Lettera a un bambino mai nato, 1975) is a novel by Italian author and journalist Oriana Fallaci. It is written as a letter by young professional woman (presumably Fallaci herself) to the fetus she carries in...
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| x 54 | Novel |
54 is a novel by Wu Ming first published in Italian in 2002.
Wu Ming is a collective of five authors founded in 2000. The members were formerly associated with the Luther Blissett Project, and four of them wrote the international best-selling novel...
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| x The Conformist | The conformist | Fiction |
The Conformist (Il conformista) is a novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1951, which details the life and desire for normalcy of a government official during Italy's fascist period. It is also known for the 1970 film adaptation by Bernardo...
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| x Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects |
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
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| x La storia | La Storia |
History: A Novel (Italian: La Storia) is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, largely seen to be her most famous and controversial work. Published in 1974, it narrates the story of a woman, Ida Ramundo, and her two sons Antonio (called "Nino")...
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| x A Man | A Man | Fiction |
A Man (1979) (Italian: Un Uomo) (Greek: Ενας Ανδρας, transliteration: Enas Andras) is a novel written by Oriana Fallaci chronicling her relationship with the attempted assassin of Greek dictator George Papadopoulos.
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| x To Each His Own |
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To Each His Own (Italian title: A ciascuno il suo) is a 1966 detective novel by Leonardo Sciascia in which an introverted academic (Professor Laurana), in attempting to solve a double-homicide, is murdered for his naive interference in town politics...
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| x Il castello di Eymerich | Castello Di Eymerich | Fantasy |
Il castello di Eymerich ("Emerych's Castle") is a book written by Valerio Evangelisti, an Italian historian and writer of historical fantasy. In chronological order, it is the seventh book in a best-selling series whose central character is Nicholas...
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| x The Mystery of the Black Jungle | Adventure novel |
The Mystery of the Black Jungle (Italian: I misteri della jungla nera) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1895. It features two of his most famous characters, the hunter Tremal-Naik and his loyal...
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| x Inshallah | Inshallah | Novel |
Inshallah (Italian: Insciallah) is a real life based novel written by Oriana Fallaci chronicling the experiences of a fictional group of Italian soldiers on a 1983 peace keeping mission in Beirut. The novel draws heavily on Fallaci's own experiences...
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| x The Shape of Water | The Shape of Water (Inspector Maltalbano Mysteries) | Crime Fiction |
The Shape of Water (La forma dell’acqua) is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the first novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series and the first of the RAI TV...
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| x The Terracotta Dog | Crime Fiction |
The Terracotta Dog (Il cane di terracotta) is a 1996 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the second novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
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| x The Snack Thief | The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) | Crime Fiction |
The Snack Thief (Il ladro di merendine) is a 1996 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2003 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the third novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
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| x The Voice of the Violin | Crime Fiction |
The Voice of the Violin ( La voce del violino ) is a 1997 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2003 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the fourth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
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| x Excursion to Tindari | Excursion to Tindari | Crime Fiction |
Excursion to Tindari ( La gita a Tindari ) is a 2000 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the fifth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series, and, upon publication in English...
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| x The Scent of the Night | The smell of the night | Crime Fiction |
The Scent of the Night ( L’odore della notte ) is a 2001 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the sixth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series.
Inspector Montalbano must...
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| x Gli Asolani | Gli Asolani (Select Bibliographies Reprint) | Dialogue |
Gli Asolani (the people of Asolo) are dialogues in 3 books written between 1497 and 1504 by Pietro Bembo in the language of Petrarch and comprise his first important work. Although he had shown a copy to Lucrezia Borgia in 1503, the first edition...
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Dinner Party is the only play written by the Italian author and novelist, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, originally in 1985 for the Riccione-Ater Theatre Prize and published by Bompiani in 1994 after Tondelli's death. The play features a series of...
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| x I'm Not Scared | I'm Not Scared | ||||
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| x The Leopard | The Leopard | Fiction | Princess Maria Stella Salina |
The Leopard is a book by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa.
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| x Libro d'Oro |
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The Libro d'Oro (Italian: Golden Book), once the formal directory of nobles in the Republic of Venice, is now a respected, privately-published directory of the nobility of Italy (including the Ionian Islands).
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| x Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana | Reference |
An encyclopedia of Italian nobility and associated heraldic devices published in 8 volumes, 1928-1935.
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