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Steerforth Italia
The Abruzzo Trilogy
• Ignazio Silone
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 927 PAGES
The three great novels of Ignazio Silone, Fontamara, Bread and Wine, and The Seed Beneath the Snow, known collectively as The Abruzzo Trilogy. All three are set during Mussolini's reign in the mountains of Abruzzo. Silone introduces Pietro Spina in his best-known Bread and Wine.
(ITL679, $29.95) |
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The Food of Italy, Region by Region
• Claudia Roden
FOOD •
2003 •
PAPER
• 440 PAGES
The marvelous Claudia Roden, who spent a year visiting cooks throughout Italy, presents 300 easy-to-prepare recipes in the context of Italian history, culture and geography.
(ITL683, $24.95) |
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Little Novels of Sicily
• Giovanni Verga
• D.H. Lawrence
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 145 PAGES
A collection of the Sicilian writer's best tales as selected and translated by D.H. Lawrence in 1925. Verga evokes the rural poverty, folkways and flavor of Sicily in the 1860s. A volume in the excellent Steerforth Italia series.
(ITL472, $15.00) |
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Venice Revealed, An Intimate Portrait
• Paolo Barbero
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 233 PAGES
An appreciation and rediscovery of Venice, its mysteries and pleasures by a native son. A volume in the excellent Steerforth Italia series. Barbero lives in the Dorsoduro. Trained as a civil engineer, he considers the precarious state of the city built centimeters above the water on many tiny and disappearing islands. He laments the duel challenges of geography and tourism.
(ITL678, $27.00) |
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The Woman of Rome, A Novel
• Alberto Moravia
• Lydia Holland
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 408 PAGES
A 20th-century classic set in Rome during the height of Italian Fascism, "The Woman of Rome" tells the stories of Adriana, a young, regretful prostitute, and the men in her life. Moravia, whose works were censored by Mussolini, creates a biting and revealing portrait of Fascist Italy strong on the geography and flavor of Rome. Originally published in 1949.
(ITL151, $27.99) |
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