Literature

A reader-friendly route through ten Italian classics, with notes on translations, complete editions, and choosing your first book.

From Renaissance Venice to contemporary Naples, Italian women writers have challenged convention, reimagined history and brought overlooked lives into literature. This guide explores the authors and books that changed how Italy—and the world—understood women’s experience.

A guide to Italy’s great poets across two millennia, with the sonnet’s origins correctly attributed to Giacomo da Lentini and fuller introductions to three essential modern voices.

During the Milan Art Week, the city becomes a cultural hub for modern and contemporary art with an extensive calendar of events: museums, art venues, private foundations and design spaces offer a packed programme of exhibitions, initiatives and performances

Italian verismo brought fishing families, provincial ambitions and local voices into the novel. Follow Verga and his contemporaries through the late 19th century and toward modernism.

A guide to the movements, poems, plays and novels that reshaped Italian literature through two world wars and the postwar years.

Dive into Italy's rich artistic and cultural tapestry. Discover how its legacy inspires students worldwide and shapes global artistic perspectives.

Explore the writers and movements that shaped Italian literature after World War II, including testimony, family novels, experimental poetry, political theatre and literary mysteries.

From gripping dramas and historical fiction to comedies and thrillers, Italian TV series have captivated millions of viewers both domestically and internationally.

Italian Renaissance literature brought together classical learning, the vernacular, political thought and epic storytelling. Follow four writers who shaped its sixteenth-century debates.

You will find selected books in various categories including travel, fiction, cookbooks, language, children, history, art, and much more.

From Visconti’s The Leopard to Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, these ten Italian books found new lives on screen. Here is what makes each book and adaptation worth exploring.

An extensive list of Italian proverbs in Italian and translated into English with book references. Popular Italian Proverbs A A cane scottato l 'acqua fredda pare...

From Baroque poetry to Enlightenment reform, Italian writers transformed imported ideas into distinctive works of poetry, theatre and political thought.

How Italian writers responded to classical tradition, Romantic ideas and the Risorgimento through poetry, dialect, political writing and the historical novel.

A new book examines a Pennsylvanian mining disaster that occurred decades ago and a miraculous rescue attributed to Pope John XXIII.

Italian literature emerged from Latin, regional vernaculars and international influences. Follow its development from the Placiti Cassinesi and Saint Francis to the Sicilian School, the Dolce Stil Novo, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.

Petrarch’s Canzoniere was shaped over decades, not written in a single year. Follow the writers and works that carried Italian literature from the fourteenth century into the Renaissance.