Italian Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness

   The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis

   By Letizia Modena

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--...

   Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge
2. Dante Chr

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
3. Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment

   Containing the Human

   By Charlotte Ross

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This innovative reading of Primo Levi’s work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi’s works — from testimony to journalism, from essays to science fiction stories — identifying and tracing multiple...

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
4. Dante Encyclopedia

   Edited by Richard Lansing

   The Dante Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource that presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works and the cultural context in which his moral and intellectual imagination took shape....

   Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
5. Beautiful Angiola

   The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach

   Published October 26th 2005 by Routledge
6. The Robber with a Witch's Head

   More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach

   By Jack Zipes, Laura Gonzenbach

   The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes....

   Published July 27th 2004 by Routledge
7. The Historians of Ancient Rome

   An Anthology of the Major Writings, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Ronald Mellor

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Published July 13th 2004 by Routledge
8. Halcyon

   Gabriel d'Annunzio

   By Gabriel d'Annunzio

   Series: Fyfield Books

   Published April 10th 2003 by Routledge
9. La Cazzaria

   The Book of the Prick

   By Antonio Vignali

   Edited by Ian Frederick Moulton

   La Cazzaria is the most outspoken erotic text of the Italian Renaissance-a ribald dialogue about politics, sex, and desire. The book is remarkable for its frank discussions of sexuality and explicit homoeroticism-especially when compared to other writings of the period-and for its sophisticated...

   Published March 6th 2003 by Routledge
10. The Italian Novella

    Edited by Gloria Allaire

    Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

    Published November 7th 2002 by Routledge