Katherine Gregor is our new resident Italianist. Born in Rome, she is an appassionata and translator of Italian literature. In…
The Italianist: Riveting Italian Books You Need to Know About
I think it was Picasso who said that an artist mustn’t chase after beauty, but run ahead of it (I…
For centuries women’s faces have observed us from the paintings where they’ve been captured for eternity. Women often not known…
Chilean writer and journalist Luis Sepúlveda (1949 – 2020) was the author of nearly twenty novels, articles, screenplays and a…
My first article for The Italianist appeared a year ago this month. I don’t know about you but I can’t…
A publisher I once tried to interest in translating Italian fairy-tales said to me, “We don’t think of Italy when…
When Dolores loses her eighteen-year-old daughter to cancer, her three friends drop everything – their own families, jobs, boyfriends and…
Friuli, Italy, on the Austro-Hungarian border, 1915. An army officer interrupts Sunday Mass with a plea for help. The Italian…
Piedmont, 1969. The lifeless bodies of two missing children are unearthed after an anonymous letter is received by the local…
Lombardy, Autumn 1652. Weary of being abused by the nobility and the soldiers that keep pillaging the land, a group…
Fifty bridges, sketched in black, bathed in blue and white. Bridges built using stone or timber, made of powerful tree…
Andrà tutto bene (All Shall Be Well) Writers at the Time of the Quarantine by Ritanna Armeni, Stefania Auci, Alice…
1930s’ Rome. Mara, thirteen, and her best friend Nadia are inebriated by their enthusiasm for Fascism and its promise of…
