Read the World: Italy

Books by authors from Italy or set in/about Italy.

Updated January 10, 2024
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The Smell of the Night
Camilleri, Andrea
Digital file
The divine comedy. Volume 1, Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Paper Book
An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1- Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the...
Saving Italy the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
Edsel, Robert M.
Paper Book
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of...
My brilliant friend [electronic resource] Neapolitan Series, Book 1
Ferrante, Elena.
Ebook
Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples (The Atlantic).   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante...
Pompeii
Harris, Robert
Paper Book
This latest "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Archangel" chronicles the suspenseful last days of the legendary ancient city nestled below the slopes of the volcano Mount Vesuvius. "[An] intelligent, engaging historical novel."--"The Washington Post Book World."
The Leopard
Di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Digital file

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