Italian

di Bruno Pischedda Bollati Boringhieri, 338 pp., € 18.50 DALILA COLUCCI- La scommessa dell'impegno “Lo scrittore è ‘in situazione’ nella sua epoca: ogni parola ha i suoi echi. Ogni silenzio anche”: è una suggestione di natura sartriana quella che si...

by Christian Caliandro and Pier Luigi Sacco Il Mulino, 146 pp., 13.50 € JULIANNE VANWAGENEN - Culture as investment In the book’s premise, authors Christian Caliandro and Pier Luigi Sacco clearly state their goals for the work: (1) distinguish between...

a cura di Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà (vol. II a cura di Erminia Irace) Einaudi, 946 pp., ill., 85.00 € MARCO ARESU - Tra geografia e storia “Prometto di non scrivere nessuna storia letteraria, nessun capitolo di storia letteraria, prima di avere...

by Mark Peterson Harvard University Press, 338 pp., $28.95 PETER LIEBERMAN Very often it takes the work of an outsider, with a fresh pair of eyes, to make an original contribution to any academic field—especially a field such as Italian Studies, whose...

by Douglas Biow Stanford University Press, 246 pp., $19.95 DAN TURELLO The ideals of grace and ease were ones that came to find great success and cultural currency during the Renaissance, in great measure thanks to the writing of Baldassarre Castiglione’s...

by Antonio Prete Bollati Boringhieri, 131 pp., € 16.00 JULIANNE VAN WAGENEN Antonio Prete, professor of comparative literature at the University of Siena, begins his book: “To translate is to transmute one language into another language. One text into...

by Svetlana Boym Basic Books, 404 pp., $22.00 CHRISTOPHER BROWN - Riddles for Longing “Somewhere on the frontier, the ghost of Dostoevsky meets the ghost of Mickey Mouse. Like the characters from The Possessed, they exchange wry smiles.” Thus concludes...

by Letizia Modena Routledge, 267 pp., $146.00 ($99.75 ebook) DAN TURELLO “If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell you how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound...

by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels Princeton Architectural Press, 216 pp., $19.95 JOHN WELSH - The Message of the Book By dawn’s early light a young couple neck on Avenue A in New York’s lower East Side. In her left hand she holds a paperback copy of...

by Andrea Camilleri Sellerio, 271 pp., € 14.00 (€ 10.00 ebook) ELGIN KIRSTEN ECKERT Montalbano suffers from extreme loneliness. Long gone are the days in which he welcomed the peace and quiet of his beachfront home and reveled in the solitude of evening...