THE INJESTER: Laugh Out Loud Stories & Recipes to Die For
A rip-roaring gastronomic memoir from Ugo Tognazzi, an icon of Italian cinema. Translated by Dominic Siracusa & Gianluca Rizzo • A mouth-watering journey through Italian … Read more
Italian Books
Reviews and ebooks of Italian titles translated into English.
The story of Felice Benuzzi who escaped from a POW camp in WWII to climb Mt Kenya and broke back 18 days later
Felice Benuzzi was an Italian diplomat and mountaineer who escaped a British prison camp in WWII with two fellow soldiers to climb Mount Kenya with … Read more
A True Story by Lucian of Samosata, the earliest example of Science Fiction in Literature
A True Story by Lucian of Samosata is the first known text that could be called science fiction A True Story (Latin: Vera Historia Verae … Read more
The Enigmatic Borges Maze in Venice
The Borges Labyrinth is located on the enchanting island of San Giorgio in Venice and is a reconstruction of the labyrinth that the English diplomat … Read more
The Origins of the Story of Romeo and Juliet
Origins of Romeo and Juliet Luigi Da Porto was an Italian condottiero, writer, and historiographer better known as the author of the story of Romeo … Read more
The Wolf And The Lamb, PHÆDRUS
Driven by thirst, a Wolf and a Lamb had come to the same stream; the Wolf stood above, and the Lamb at a distance below. … Read more
Child Labour And the Sulphur Mines in Sicily
THERE is one street in Catania, Sicily, which seems to be given over to the trade and industry of the poorer people of the city. … Read more
Codex Seraphinianus, the surreal encyclopedia by Luigi Serafini
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist Luigi Serafini (b. 1949) between 1976 and 1978. … Read more
Modern Italy
A Political History