The Late Mattia Pascal (Dedalus European Classics)
by Luigi Pirandello
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man...
The InVerse anthology is the outcome of a project that began as a reading of Italian poets at John Cabot University in Rome in the spring of 2005. At the root of the project was the desire to introduce English-speaking audiences and readers to contemporary Italian poetry, since many interesting authors are as yet quite unknown internationally. Every spring the editors invite the poets themselves to read their texts in Italian, while the audience reads the Italian translations. This anthology col...
Della Commedia Presso I Greci, I Latini, E Gl'italiani
by Cesare Beccaria
Letters to Francesco Datini (Other Voice - Toronto, #16)
by Margherita Datini
The letters of Margherita Datini to her husband, "the merchant of Prato," are virtually impossible to put down. Margherita is never obsequious, and never holds her tongue as she chastises Francesco for staying up too late, asks about a case before the Eight of Florence, beseeches him to help friends in prison, worries over financial transactions, and updates him on his business, the harvests, and his illegitimate child (whom she cares for) when he is away. Rich in emotional life and historical p...
20,000 Leagues under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6)
by Jules Verne
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" includes a Foreword and Afterword by T. A. Barron. Jules Verne is considered the...
Italian Conversational Course
by Toscani Giovanni and Giovanni Toscani
Note Biografiche Intorno A Giovan Francesco Peverone Matematico Cuneese (1882)
by Ottavio Zanotti Bianco
L'Antico Oratorio Di Sant' Agnese In Monasterio Con Pitture Cristiane Del Secolo Nono (1870)
by Leone Nardoni
