The Ultimate Guide to Milan Art Week: A Celebration of Creativity and Culture
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
Giovanni Boccaccio: His Life, the Decameron and the Art of Storytelling
Giovanni Boccaccio transformed love, wit and human contradictions into the Decameron. Discover his life, five memorable tales and his lasting place in Italian literature.
10 Italian Literary Classics to Read at Least Once
A reader-friendly route through ten Italian classics, with notes on translations, complete editions, and choosing your first book.
Italian Women Writers Who Changed Literature
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.
Italy’s Most Famous Poets: From Ancient Rome to Modern Italy
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.
The Most Viewed and Popular Italian TV Series (1980–Today)
From gripping dramas and historical fiction to comedies and thrillers, Italian TV series have captivated millions of viewers both domestically and internationally.
10 Italian Books Adapted into Movies and TV Series
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.
Art and Culture of Italy: Inspiration for Students
Dive into Italy's rich artistic and cultural tapestry. Discover how its legacy inspires students worldwide and shapes global artistic perspectives.
Italian Books – Libri italiani
You will find selected books in various categories including travel, fiction, cookbooks, language, children, history, art, and much more.
Italian Literature: Its Origins, Early Writers and the Rise of Dante
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.
New Book Praises Pope John XXIII’s Miracle at Sheppton
A new book examines a Pennsylvanian mining disaster that occurred decades ago and a miraculous rescue attributed to Pope John XXIII.
Italian Literature in the Late 20th Century: Writers, Movements and Essential Books
Explore the writers and movements that shaped Italian literature after World War II, including testimony, family novels, experimental poetry, political theatre and literary mysteries.
Italian Literature in the 20th Century: Authors, Movements and Essential Books
A guide to the movements, poems, plays and novels that reshaped Italian literature through two world wars and the postwar years.
Italian Verismo: Giovanni Verga and the Age of Realism
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.
Italian Literature: Classicism and Romanticism
How Italian writers responded to classical tradition, Romantic ideas and the Risorgimento through poetry, dialect, political writing and the historical novel.
Italian Literature: Baroque, Arcadia and Foreign Influences
From Baroque poetry to Enlightenment reform, Italian writers transformed imported ideas into distinctive works of poetry, theatre and political thought.
Italian Literature of the Renaissance: Bembo, Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso
Italian Renaissance literature brought together classical learning, the vernacular, political thought and epic storytelling. Follow four writers who shaped its sixteenth-century debates.
Italian Literature in the Early Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Fifteenth Century
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.