La vicenda si svolge ad Ascoli Piceno nell'ambito della piccola borghesia segnata da difficolta materiali e da carenze affettive. Due sorelle, tristi della loro solitudine, cresciute tra un padre vecchio e malato, una madre soverchiata dai dolori e dalle disgrazie e un fratello ritardato, consumano la loro sconfitta. Nessuna delle due incontrera quella felicita che si identifica con l'amore, negato da un destino beffardo. Di caratteri opposti, Miriam, dolce e sottomessa, Severa, battagliera e ag...
The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, The New Life is a work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity that has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love. The New Life is published here in the bea...
Le novelle Marinaresche di Mastro Catrame (Italian Edition)
by Emilio Salgari
Rivista Filologico-Letteraria V1 (1871)
by Francesco Corazzini, Ad Gemma, and Bartolomeo Zandonella
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question (Routledge Focus on Literature)
by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late nineteenth-century Italy. This study proposes to bring Neera out of the shadows of literary marginality to which she has long been confined by analyzing her contribution to literary and cultural debates as testimony to the pivotal role she play...
Della Illustrazione Delle Lingue Antiche, E Moderne E Principalmente Dell'italia
by Cesare Lucchesini
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
A landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri A Penguin Classic When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader--and writer--took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and unexpected freedom. This collection brings together forty writers who have shaped her love of...
Dante's Multitudes (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature)
by Teodolinda Barolini
A critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet’s disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini’s marked contribution to the field. In Dante’s Multitudes, the newest addition to the renowned William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, Teodolinda Barolini gathers sixteen of her essays exploring the revolutionary character of Dante’s work. Embracing the Vita Nuova, De vulgari eloquentia, Convivio, Epistles, Monarchia, and Rime, a...