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xxxvii, 527 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Acquainted with grief / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- Adonis / Giambattista Marino -- The adventures of Pinocchio / Carlo Collodi -- Arcadia / Jacopo Sannazaro -- Artemisia / Anna Banti -- Ashes / Grazia Deledda -- The betrothed / Alessandro Manzoni -- The book of Courtier / Baldesar Castiglione -- The canti (songs) / Giacomo Leopardi -- The canzoniere / Francesco Petrarch -- The child of pleasure / Gabriele D'Annunzio -- The conformist / Alberto Moravia -- The decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- The duel / Giacomo Casanova -- Excursion to Tindari / Andrea Camilleri -- The founding and manifesto of futurism / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- Ghisola / Federigo Tozzi -- History: a novel / Elsa Morante -- History as the story of liberty / Benedetto Croce -- The house by the medlar tree / Giovanni Verga -- Jerusalem delivered / Torquato Tasso -- The last letters of Jacopo Ortis / Ugo Foscolo -- The leopard / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- Letters from prison / Antonio Gramsci -- Life of a man / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Mirandolina, or the mistress of the inn / Carlo Goldoni -- The moon and the bonfires / Cesare Pavese -- Moor Harlequin's 22 misfortunes / Marco Martinelli -- My life / Benvenuto Cellini -- Myrrha / Vittorio Alfieri -- The name of the rose / Umberto Eco -- The new science of Giambattista Vico / Giambattista Vico -- Orlando Furioso / Lodovico Ariosto -- The path to the spider's nests / Italo Calvino -- Poems in Terza Rima / Veronica Franco -- The poetry of Eugenio Montale / Eugenio Montale -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Rime / Gaspara Stampa -- The secret / Alba de Cespedes -- The silent duchess / Dacia Maraini -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Stanzas on the tournament / Angelo Poliziano -- Stil Novo poetry / Guido Guinizzelli, Guido Cavalcanti -- Survival in Auschwitz / Primo Levi -- Teresa / Neera -- The travels of Marco Polo / Marco Polo -- We won't pay! We won't pay! / Dario Fo -- A woman / Sibilla Aleramo -- Zeno's conscience / Italo Svevo.
Includes bibliographical references and index.