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"Dante brings the legendary author--and the medieval Italy of his era-- to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings...

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) was one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the post-World War II era. An astonishing polymath--poet, novelist, literary critic, political polemicist, screenwriter, and film director--he exerted profound influence on Italian culture up to his untimely death at the age of fifty-three. This revised edition of what the New York Times Book Review has called "the standard Pasolini biography" introduces the artist...

"From Gianni Rodari, the visionary Italian children's author of the 20th century and recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, comes a collection of essays on fairy tales, folk tales, creation, and the imagination. Replete with inventive teaching strategies and unconventional thought experiments, Rodari gives credence to fantasy as a way of life. In this edition, wonderfully translated by Jack Zipes, one of the US's foremost experts on children's...

"Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won Italy's...