A landmark translation of passionate, fiercely intelligent poetry about coming of age by one of the most influential Italian writers of the twentieth century.In the spring of 1935, the young Cesare Pavese was sentenced, for "antifascist activities," to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria. Far away from his familiar life in the city of Turin and forced to rely on his own resources, he began to write poems of tremendous power, in terse lin...

Learn Italian fast: Impara l'Italiano velocemente.As you may already know, Italian is far from being an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master Italian is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below every Italian Modo di dire, plus a couple of ready-to-use examples to help you catch its ful...

I have always thought that a poem does not have 'one' meaning. It can (and has to) have many: one for each and every reader. If it's so, what could be the meaning of the following verses?"/ Your eyes –Ethereal / Like butterfly wings./"Or :"Imagine how / Long was the night / And it broke into a day / Loaded with shadows — ../"Or, again:"/ Where charcoal snow falls and freezes her heart, / With an occasional acid rain that melts her bones./"Following...

A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for language learners. Ranging from a s...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.

Learn Italian fast: Impara l'Italiano velocemente.As you may already know, Italian is far from being an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master Italian is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below every Italian Modo di dire, plus a couple of ready-to-use examples to help you catch its full meaning.

A collection of essays discussing the famed Italian film director, writer, and intellectual.More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to acknowledge the significance of his living memory. His artistic and cultural production continues to be a fundamental reference point in any discourse on the state of the arts, and on contemporary political events, in Italy and abroad.This collection of essays intends to co...

Dive into the enchanting world of Italy with The Last Refuge In Venice, a captivating collection of bilingual short stories designed for adult Italian language learners. Each tale is carefully crafted to transport you to the heart of Italy, offering an immersive experience that blends culture, language, and emotion.From a quaint fishing village to the bustling city streets, these stories provide a diverse glimpse into Italian life, enriched by the lyrical beauty of...

Questo lavoro non vuole essere un prontuario di istruzioni sanitarie, su quelle che sono le norme igieniche utili ad evitare il contagio virale, bensì una guida per preservare al meglio la propria salute mentale ed il benessere psicologico, durante l’isolamento a cui la quarantena ha costretti.Lo stesso possiamo dividerlo in due parti:La prima, fornisce risposte alle tante domande che in questi giorni hanno affollato la nostra mente, spesso anche contrastanti tra loro, riguardo il controll...

Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive selection of Merini's poetry to appear in English. Complete with the original Italian on facing pages, a critical introduction, and expl...

Draghi, Magia e Destino – La Saga di Drako per Ragazzi AvventurosiUn'avventura epica tra cielo e magia per lettori dai 9 ai 12 anni!Preparati a volare con Drako, un giovane draghetto dal cuore grande, in un mondo dove:Il cielo si spezza e la magia si risveglia.Una misteriosa frattura viola inghiotte le stelle… e cambia per sempre il destino di Fuocofronda.Un cucciolo di drago scopre il...

Quando il mio amico Stefano ha pubblicato  il divertente Non son lucido, ma brillo, sono rimasto colpito ed esilarato: un libro di enigmistica classica che però ha un taglio per nulla serio, bensì brillante ed ironico. La sezione che mi ha colpito di più è quella dei palindromi, molti dei quali sono degli autentici nonsense, tuttavia pregevoli per l'acrobazia linguistica che li caratterizza. Mi è allora venuto in mente...