Italian category: 1892 books
My American Dream
A Life of Love, Family, and Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
For decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. Now, in My American Dream, she tells her own story for the very first time. Born in Pula, on the Istrian peninsula, Lidia grew up surrounded by love and security, learning...
Return Narratives
Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return...
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks.
Grounded...
Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy
Imagination and Thought across Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist. The volume re-examines traditional critical notions central to the...
A Year of Mourning
Poems 271-322 of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Lee Harlin Bahan delves into the crowded field of Petrarch translations and delivers a classical offering with a postmodern-cool facelift. A Year of Mourning is daring, quirky, and playful, but with traditional trimmings. The expected classical and Biblical references abound, but also vivid allusions...
Fairy Tales
Bilingual Edition (English – Italian)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Italian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
Anna Maria Ortese
Celestial Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays...
I Love to Brush My Teeth Amo lavarmi i denti
English Italian Bilingual Collection
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
English Italian Bilingual children's book Little Jimmy doesn't like to brush his teeth. Even when his mother gives him a brand new orange toothbrush, his favorite color, he doesn't use it like he is supposed to. But when strange and magical things start happening to Little Jimmy, he begins to realize...
The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy
Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini appropriated many aspects of the country’s Catholic religious heritage to exploit the mystique and power of the sacred. One concept that the regime deployed as a core strategy was that of “sacrifice.” In this book, Chiara Ferrari interrogates how the...
The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature
The Case of Liguria
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Situated between the flat and misty Po Valley and the Mediterranean Sea, Liguria appears as a rainbow-shaped and mountainous island, extending from the Tuscan sandy shores of Versilia to the French Alps. Through a close reading of several modern and contemporary poets and novelists, the author illustrates...
by PONS Editorial Team
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Optimized for use on the Kindle, this title is written for travelers, students, and lovers of language who will soon find this dictionary to be indispensable. This eBook features 15,000 words and concepts sorted into 13 clearly formatted and color-coded categories. These categories are easily navigable...
by Marilyn Migiel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that...
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies
An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by...