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The Twilight Of Rome'S Papal Nobility - The Life Of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi

by Ugo Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856â€“1935)

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 The Twilight of Romeâ€™s Papal Nobility is an intimate look at an ancient papal family who grew up accustomed to almost unimaginable wealth, power, and glamour. A tender elegy to a bygone era, this book offers a first-hand account of late nineteenth-century Italyâ€™s social upheavals as the familyâ€™s vast private villa is divided up into public lands.
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Caravaggio Syndrome - A Novel

by Alessandro Giardino

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 Leyla is a headstrong Brooklyn-born art historian at a prestigious upstate New York college. When she meets feckless young computer technician Pablo at a party, she quickly becomes pregnant with his child. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. Amid this love triangle, the objects of Leyla and Michael’s study take on a life of their own. Trying to learn more about Caravaggio’s masterpiece The Seven Works of Mercy, they pore over the journal and prison writings of maverick 17th-century utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella, which, as if by enchantment, transport them back four centuries to Naples. And while the past and present miraculously converge, Leyla, Michael, and Tommaso embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life. In this fusion of historical, queer, and speculative fiction, Alessandro Giardino combines the intellectual playfulness of Umberto Eco with the psychological finesse of Michael Cunningham.
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Life, Brazen And Garish - A Tale Of Three Women

by Dacia Maraini

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 This fresh take on the epistolary novel tells the story of a family through the disparate perspectives of a teenage daughter writing in her diary, a mother composing letters, and a grandmother speaking into a recorder. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is a triumph of voice and style from one of Italyâ€™s most renowned writers.
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Glory - The Gospel Of Judas, A Novel

by Giuseppe Berto

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 Christ’s nemesis Judas Iscariot remains a shadowy figure in the four canonical gospels, which give contradictory reasons for why this rogue disciple betrays Christ. But how would Judas himself explain his motives? In Glory, Italian modernist Giuseppe Berto’s final novel, Judas finally tells his side of the story. From his perspective, Jesus is the betrayer, a would-be political activist and social reformer who fails to live up to his promises. And by fulfilling his predestined role in the drama of Christ’s death and resurrection, Judas himself is partly responsible for humanity’s salvation, enabling them to be redeemed by Christ’s sacrifice. As the novel probes into the psychological motivations behind his rejection of Jesus’ authority, Judas emerges as a compelling conflicted character, a man who seeks to have agency even when he knows his actions are being scripted by a higher power. Through Judas’s searing tortured monologues, this late masterpiece from one of Italy’s greatest writers investigates deep questions about the nature of faith, rebellion, fate, and free will.
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When Things Happen - A Novel

by Angelo Cannavacciuolo

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 The first novel by acclaimed Italian writer Angelo Cannavacciuolo to be translated into English, When Things Happen tells a powerful and intriguing story of what we lose when we leave our origins behind. It presents a panoramic view of Neapolitan society unlike any in literature, revealing a city of extreme contrasts, with a glamorous center ringed by suburban squalor.
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Round Dance - A Novel

by Carmine Abate

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 Inspired by the oral traditions of the old Albanian bards and incorporating the poetic local dialect, The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.
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Antologaia - Queering The Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir

by Porpora Marcasciano

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 In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s, yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
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Outcast - A Novel

by Luigi Pirandello

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 An early masterwork from Nobel Prize-winning Italian author Luigi Pirandello that combines elements of Zolaesque naturalism with emerging modernist aesthetics. This fresh English translation, the first in nearly one hundred years, showcases Pirandelloâ€™s deft play with language and his use of irony.
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Islam And Me - Narrating A Diaspora

by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

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 Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somaliaâ€™s former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion. In Islam and Me, Fazel tells her story.
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Oh, Serafina! - A Fable Of Ecology, Lunacy, And Love

by Giuseppe Berto

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 A fable for adults about ecology, lunacy, and love. The protagonist, Augustus the Second Valle, is the grandson of the founder of the FIFA button factory in Lombardy. He inherits the factory, but his main interest is the birds who live in the surrounding gardens and whom he, like Saint Francis, talks to on a regular basis.
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The Activist Collector - Lida Clanton Broner'S 1938 Journey From Newark To South Africa

by Christa Clarke

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 How did Lida Clanton Broner - a working class mother - come to be a globally connected activist? What were her experiences as an African American woman in segregated South Africa and how did she further her work after her return? Bronerâ€™s remarkable story is the subject of this book.
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Antologaia - Queering The Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir

by Porpora Marcasciano

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 In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s, yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
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In Praise Of Disobedience - Clare Of Assisi, A Novel

by Dacia Maraini

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 Dacia Maraini achieves a moving act of imagination. This brilliant secular writer discerns in an austere historical figure an icon for today. A visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy, in Marianiâ€™s masterful narrative Saint Clare becomes an inspirational figure for a new generation.
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Reversing The Gaze - What If The Other Were You?

by Genevieve Makaping

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 Drawing on her own experiences, Genevieve Makaping spins the customary gaze of anthropology around, and the gaze that in colonial ethnography was directed at the so-called uncivilized indigenous and Black peoples, now focuses on the white majority as seen from her point of view.
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My Language Is A Jealous Lover

by Adrian N. Bravi

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 Explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue. Discussing everything from creoles to dying languages and from the Tower of Babel to the Sicilian Vespers, Adrian Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.
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The Black Body

by Anna Maria Gehnyei

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The Black Body

by Anna Maria Gehnyei

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The Caravaggio Syndrome - A Novel

by Alessandro Giardino

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Wake - The Hidden History Of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Rebecca Hall; Illustration: Hugo Martinez

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Glory - The Gospel Of Judas, A Novel

by Giuseppe Berto

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Glory - The Gospel Of Judas, A Novel

by Giuseppe Berto

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Her Name That Day - A Novel

by Pietro Spirito

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Her Name That Day - A Novel

by Pietro Spirito

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Farewell To Russia - Memories Of When I Was Kola

by Nikolai Prestia

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